distinguishing public from secret keys with gpgme

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 18:04, hans at guardianproject.info said:
> Hey all,
>
> Using gpgme 1.4.1, I'm trying to pick out which keys in the keyring have the
> secret component, and can be used for signing and decryption.  I've tried:
>
>     return key->secret
>
> and
>
>     jboolean hasSecretKey = 0;
>     gpgme_subkey_t subkey;
>     for(subkey = key->subkeys; subkey; subkey = subkey->next)
>         if (subkey->secret)
>             return 1;
>     return 0;
>
> Both of these always turn up false for every key in the keyring.  `gpg2
> --list-secret-keys` shows that I have one secret key.  What am I missing?

You need to pass true as the last argument to gpgme_op_keylist_start to
list the secret keys.  Unfortunately this will only return secret keys
thus if you want to have a combined listing you need to match them.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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