openpgp fingerprints for subkeys

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Jun 16 15:56:13 CEST 2008


"Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> Makes sense.
>>
>>> Having a parallel subkey-specific fingerprint function would be good.
>>>
>>> If you want to verify the subkey fingerprint calculations, you can see
>>> them emitted with gpg with two --fingerprint options:
>>>
>>>  gpg --fingerprint --fingerprint --list-key "$KEYID"
>>
>> Is it easy to implement this?  I think we could squeeze this addition
>> into 2.4.0 if you or Nikos come up with a patch soon.
>
> Could be easy but please do not delay the 2.4.0 for this. The merging
> of development with my branch is already very difficult!  Such a
> function can be easily implemented at any point (currently I'm not
> home so I cannot provide a quick patch).

That new API can go into a 2.4.1 as well.  I don't see a reason not to
release 2.4.0 on schedule on Thursday.

/Simon





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