gnupg: request for small change in output
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe at math.utah.edu
Fri Oct 3 14:55:02 CEST 2003
In signature validation, gnupg tools produce output like this:
% gpg gmp-4.1.2.tar.bz2.asc
...
gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 30 23:16:35 2002 MST using DSA key ID 769AFE02
% pgpgpg gmp-4.1.2.tar.bz2.asc
...
gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 30 23:16:35 2002 MST using DSA key ID 769AFE02
Please change this, and any other instances in tool output, to prefix
the hexadecimal key with 0x:
gpg: Signature made Mon Dec 30 23:16:35 2002 MST using DSA key ID 0x769AFE02
The reason for this is simple: key lookup in PGP key servers does not
work without the 0x prefix, and users should not be expected to
remember to add that prefix.
I've made a note of that point in my notes on use of PGP and GnuPG:
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/PGP-notes.html
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