Examine a key file

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Wed Nov 24 00:48:52 CET 2010


On 11/15/2010 13:38, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> On 11/15/2010 3:19 PM, Scott Lambdin wrote:
>>>       If I have a base 64 exported PGP key, how can I extract the
>>>
>>> descriptive data about the key without importing it?
>>
>> Never tested it, but this should work (or come close to working):
>>
>> gpg --dry-run -vvvv --import pubkey.asc
>
> Way too complicated. :-)
>
> The following is sufficient:
> gpg -v<pubkey.asc

Are you sure?  Using gpg2 I just tested your command, and Robert's. His 
worked. :)


Doug

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