more information desired in --edit-key list output

Adam M. adam at adammil.net
Wed Jul 2 23:36:45 CEST 2008


The --with-colons --edit-key list output:

(something like this)

pub:u:1024:1:265CC806C45BF178:1214983729:0::u:
fpr:::::::::C4B7E17BBFFDD6792E8CAEEA265CC806C45BF178:
uid:u::::::::John! <a at b.c>:::S9 S8 S7 S3 S2 H2 H8 H3 Z2 Z3 
Z1,mdc,no-ks-modify:1,ps:
uid:u::::::::John! <a at b.c>:::S9 S8 S7 S3 S2 H2 H8 H3 Z2 Z3 
Z1,mdc,no-ks-modify:2,:
uat:u::::::::1 7332:::S9 S8 S7 S3 S2 H2 H8 H3 Z2 Z3 Z1,mdc,no-ks-modify:3,:
uat:u::::::::1 7332:::S9 S8 S7 S3 S2 H2 H8 H3 Z2 Z3 Z1,mdc,no-ks-modify:4,:

doesn't provide enough information to positively correlate the uid and 
uat records from --list-keys with the ones displayed in --edit-key.

In the --list-keys output, the user IDs and attributes can be easily 
distinguished. They all have different creation times, and the user 
attributes have different hash values too. But in the --edit-key menu, 
the user IDs and user attributes look identical, so there's no way to 
really tell which record I'm editing.

This would be greatly helped if two additional pieces of information 
were displayed in the --edit-key output: the creation date (field 6) and 
the hash of the UID/UAT contents (field 8). I'm guessing it wouldn't be 
too hard to output them since the code is already written for --list-keys.

What do you think?
-- Adam



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