Fingerprint of the subkey just created?

[Peter Pentchev]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:36:46PM -0400, vedaal at nym.hush.com wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
> wrote on Thu Apr 4 22:56:50 CEST 2013 :
> 
> >gpg will emit the fingerprints for the subkeys if you supply the
> --fingerprint argument twice.  So you might try parsing the output of:
> 
>  gpg --list-keys --with-colons --fingerprint --fingerprint
> --fixed-list-mode $PGPID
> 
> -----
> 
> It's even enough to just do:
> 
> gpg --fingerprint --fingerprint
> 
> and gnupg will list the keys and subkeys each with their short id followed by a line
> Key fingerprint  with the fingerprint

If *you* want to see the fingerprint, that's fine.  If you want to
write a *program* that needs the fingerprint, then --with-colons is
pretty much mandatory, since it avoids all the issues of changing
messages, localized messages, weird characters that might be mistaken
for parts of messages, etc.

Of course, for writing programs that interface with GnuPG, it's best
to go all the way and use GPGME, but for some simple tasks the output
of --with-colons is exactly right.

I didn't know about --fixed-list-mode; thanks!

G'luck,
Peter

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Peter Pentchev	roam at ringlet.net roam at FreeBSD.org p.penchev at storpool.com
PGP key:	http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc
Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115  C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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