problems with --add-key and --delete-key

[James Troup]

Hi, 

I'm having problems with generating sub-keys.

| 20:24:43 at junk| ~ $gpg  -u "James Troup <james at nocrew.org>" --add-key "James Troup"
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| sec  2048G/9EB2E7D1 1998-03-04   James Troup <jjtroup at comp.brad.ac.uk>
| 
| Key is protected.
| 
| You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
| user: "James Troup <jjtroup at comp.brad.ac.uk>"
| (2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 9EB2E7D1, created 1998-03-04)
| 
| Please select what kind of key you want:
|    (2) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
|    (3) ElGamal (encrypt only)
|    (4) DSA (sign only)
|    (5) ElGamal in a v3 packet
| Your selection? 2
| About to generate a new ELG keypair.
|               minimum keysize is  768 bits
|               default keysize is 1024 bits
|     highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
| What keysize do you want? (1024)
| Requested keysize is 1024 bits
| Please specify how long the key should be valid.
|          0 = key does not expire
|       <n>  = key expires in n days
|       <n>w = key expires in n weeks
|       <n>m = key expires in n months
|       <n>y = key expires in n years
| Key is valid for? (0) 0
| Key does not expire at all
| Is this correct (y/n)? y
| We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
| some other action (work in another window, move the mouse, utilize the
| network and the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random
| number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
| ++++++++++.........+++++.......+++++.........+++++....++++++++++....+++++........+++++...+++++.+++++..+++++.......................+++++...+++++.....+++++......+++++..+++++.+++++..+++++++++++++++.....................+++++....+++++...+++++....++++++++++>.+++++>...........+++++.......................................................+++++^^^
| public and secret subkey created.
| 20:25:57 at junk| ~ $gpg --list-keys
| /home/james/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
| ------------------------------
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| pub  2048G/9EB2E7D1 1998-03-04 James Troup <jjtroup at comp.brad.ac.uk>
| sub  1024G/2BC1891C 1998-07-02 
| pub  1312G/FF3EAA0B 1998-02-09 Werner Koch <wk at isil.d.shuttle.de>
| pub  1024G/3CAF73CA 1998-02-19 Walter Koch (dg9ep) <walterk at ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de>
| 20:26:19 at junk| ~ $

-u was my attempt to specify a name for the sub-key.  It obviously
failed...  what am I missing?  Oh, and --add-key doesn't appear to be
documented in the manpage.  Giving up on that, I thought I'd try to
remove some the keys I'd created in testing, but that failed to:

| 20:21:08 at junk| ~ $gpg --list-keys --no-greeting
| /home/james/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
| ------------------------------
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| pub  2048G/9EB2E7D1 1998-03-04 James Troup <jjtroup at comp.brad.ac.uk>
| sub  1024D/A1F576D6 1998-07-01 
| sub  1024G/5B1EF39C 1998-07-01 
| sub  1024G/B33290A4 1998-07-01 
| pub  1312G/FF3EAA0B 1998-02-09 Werner Koch <wk at isil.d.shuttle.de>
| pub  1024G/3CAF73CA 1998-02-19 Walter Koch (dg9ep) <walterk at ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de>
| 20:21:13 at junk| ~ $gpg --no-greeting --delete-key 0xA1F576D6 
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| gpg: 0xA1F576D6: user not found
| gpg: 0xA1F576D6: delete key failed: eof
| 20:21:14 at junk| ~ $

Sorry, if I'm blatantly missing something obvious here.  Also sorry
for sounding so negative :/

Other minor nits, which may or may not be considered bugs:

o gpg --edit-key results in an error message of something like "usage:
  --edit-sig userid", which is confusing since I gave it --edit-key as
  an option.  (I realise the two are aliases, but...)

o gpg seems unnaturally fussy about the way options are presented to
  it, e.g. `gpg --no-greeting --delete-key 0xA1F576D6' works (or not
  as this case maybe), but `gpg --delete-key 0xA1F576D6 -no-greeting',
  gives a usage error.

-- 
James
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