On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Faramir wrote:
Robert J. Hansen escribió:
They are not going to use the fingerprint to retrieve
the key, only to verify that the retrieved key is yours.
Sure they are. Where do you think the key ID comes from? It's the
last
eight hex digits of the fingerprint.
Yes, you are right, but remember newbies like me maybe don't know
that, and maybe they think about fingerprints and Key IDs as 2
separated
things... And the 2 GUIs I use ask for a Key ID to perform the
searches... It seems we have another entry for the FAQ:
Q: "I got a fingerprint, but not a Key ID, how do I search the key?"
A: "The Key ID is the last part of the fingerprint, it can be 8 or 16
characters long (short and long formats). Use those last digits to do
the search, and then use the whole fingerprint to check you found the
right key".
Or just search on the fingerprint directly:
gpg --recv-keys 7D92FD313AB6F3734CC59CA1DB698D7199242560
David
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