Unable to issue subkey revocation

[marqueandreprisal at duck.com]

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From: Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users 
<gnupg-users_at_gnupg.org_marqueandreprisal at duck.com>
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org 
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Date: May 25, 2026 09:53:42
Subject: Re: Unable to issue subkey revocation

> On 25/05/2026 10:06, marqueandreprisal--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> About being careful not to post the private key. I would be 
>> embarrassed to accidentally upload my private key. I recall PGP 1 
>> having a "keypair" with a fingerprint of the private key and public 
>> key however in this new gpg2 it appears the same fingerprint 
>> identifies both the seckey and pubkey. Is the long ID actually a 
>> fingerprint of the pubkey even when identifying the seckey within 
>> gpg2?
> The fingerprint identifies the key pair, not the public or secret 
> component separately, and is always calculated from the public key. If 
> a key appears to have multiple fingerprints, it will be because there 
> are one or more subkeys.
>
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Would you be able to quickly and accurately explain this fingerprint 
function of gpg2 in a small paragraph?

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