What does the "sub" entry of a key mean?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:21:01 -0500, Jameson Rollins
<jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:17:27 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> THanks, indeed the --with-colons gave a completely different output...
>> I was just about to ask of the date format (if it changes between
>> operating systems or such) but now I have a different problem in
>> understanding the machine readable format.
>> 
>> Very hard to understand. Is there a parsing guide somewhere?
>
>Hi, Bo.  There should be a file called DETAILS (in doc/DETAILS in the
>gnupg source, or maybe included with your local installation) that
>describes in detail the meaning of the --with-colons output.  It's
>exactly the reference you're looking for when writing a program to parse
>the --with-colons output.
>
>Good luck!
>
>jamie.
>
>
>$ head gnupg2-2.0.14/doc/DETAILS
>                                                              -*- text -*-
>Format of colon listings
>========================
>First an example:
>
>$ gpg --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-keys \
>   --with-fingerprint --with-fingerprint wk at gnupg.org
>
>pub:f:1024:17:6C7EE1B8621CC013:899817715:1055898235::m:::scESC:
>fpr:::::::::ECAF7590EB3443B5C7CF3ACB6C7EE1B8621CC013:
>$ 

Thanks,
downloaded the GPG sources and located the DETAILS file.
Now have to read the document, but it seems doable at least...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden