How to check an exported key's fingerprint

[Werner Koch]

On Fri,  6 Apr 2012 15:13, MichaelQuigley at TheWay.Org said:

> Using GnuPG 1.4.11 is there a way to check the fingerprint of a public key 
> before importing it to the keyring?  The key was exported using the 

There is no such option.  However, you may use

  gpg --with-fingerprint FILE

to show the content of a file.  If you use 

  gpg --with-fingerprint --with-colons FILE

you get the output in a machine readable format.

> (So I won't need to ask again.)  The documentation I've located is either 
> for GnuPG 2 or rather sketchy.

  man gpg

But anyway, the gpg and gpg2 are almost identical from the user
interface.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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