Detection of sign-only vs. sign-and-encrypt keys

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Marcus Frings wrote:

> could anyone please point me to the right section in the man page
> (which I'm obviously missing) how I can find out with a single gpg
> command line option if a key is just a sign-only key or a "normal"
> sign-and-encrypt key?
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i'm not sure if there's a command to tell you that, as such.

one way to do it is this:
   $ echo test | gpg --trust-model always -er 0xD9F57808 2> /dev/null > /dev/null ; echo $?

if it says "0" the key can be used for encryption. anything else means the 
key can't be used for encryption... maybe because there's no encryption 
key, maybe because it's expired, revoked, not found ...


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