Current state and contact (various questions)

[Annie Yousar]

Hi B1773rm4n,

you said that export of gpg --armor --export $KEY yields a different 
public key than Thunderbird is creating. In fact, this is not true. It 
is the same key, only their formats are different (new and old format). 
You wouldn't say as well that the ASCII armor and the binary keys are 
different.

If you use the command gpg -v --list-packets (verbose listing) for the 
"different" keys you should see, that they contain the same same key 
material ;-)

Kind regards,
/Ann.


Am 2022-02-02 um 08:30 schrieb B1773rm4n via Gnupg-users:
> Hello,
>
> this is my first post here. I'm an experienced Dev and FOSS 
> contributor which worked quite some with gpg recently.
>
> I got some questions:
>
> 1. Who takes care for tasks like updating the website?
> For example https://gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.html would be easy 
> to update. Someone could easily do it. Who is responsible? How can I 
> do it myself?
>
> 2. Difference of public key between gpg and Thunderbird. What do I 
> have to do to yield the same public key file?
> I create a key pair in gpg and then import it to thunderbird. When 
> using the "attach pub key to mail" option another pub key is used than 
> I have saved in my gpg exported file
>
> 2.1 The export of gpg --armor --export $KEY yields a different public 
> key than Thunderbird is creating. I'm using this script:
> https://gist.github.com/B1773rm4n/97c347ab77ac2ae3b8595f0c89b99bb4#file-creategpg-sh-L86 
>
>
> 2.2 One clue which I got via --list-packets is that gpg is using 
> new-ctb - Thunderbird is using the old ctb. Maybe this yields 
> different results? I haven't been able to find any documentation about 
> that new-ctb. Where can I find it?
>
> 3. I'm already asking the Ubuntu community but want to ask here too: 
> gpg on Ubuntu jammy is 12 months old running 2.2.27. How is the 
> current process / communication handled? Is there anything I can do to 
> support/speed up this process?
>
> 4. Is there any IRC channel or other way of chat communication 
> available for gpg?
>
> Greets B1773rm4n
>
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