Identifying one of multiple authentication subkeys

Brian Exelbierd bex at pobox.com
Sat Mar 23 13:39:20 CET 2019


Hi Peter,

Your help has been amazing and very useful.  I was re-reading this answer and I noticed the comments below:

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote:

> (By the way, as you can see in the ssh-keygen output, my key actually
> has a comment field in the gpg-agent. It was imported from an on-disk
> OpenSSH file, that's where it came from.

How did you import this key?  Monkeysphere's pem2opengpg only reads older formats that don't support comments.  I didn't see anything about import from the newer formats in my searches.

> I don't know a way to have a
> comment field for a key generated with gpg, although I could probably
> hack it in in the private key store. Let's not do that.)

Should I open a feature request on this, or have you already done so?

regards,

bex



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