Public vs Private Fingerprint

[Damien Goutte-Gattat]

On 08/14/2018 12:05 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> That was my conclusion after having searched a bit this morning,
> but I didn't notice it explicitly documented?

Maybe not in GnuPG's manual, but it is explicitly documented in the
specification of the OpenPGP format (RFC 4880, §12.2 [1]):

> A [V4] fingerprint is the 160-bit SHA-1 hash of the octet 0x99,
> followed by the two-octet packet length, followed by the entire
> *Public-Key packet* starting with the version field.


Damien

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-12.2

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