On Mon 2017-08-14 03:32:08 -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: > I was recently trying to compare the fingerprint of a key I downloaded > to its online stated value. I thought I should be able to accomplish > my goal with "gpg --fingerprint public-key-file.asc". Gpg returned > "gpg: error reading key: No public key"
"gpg --fingerprint" displays the fingerprint of a key that is already in
the user's keyring.
you'll need to "gpg --import public-key-file.asc" first, and then ask
for its fingerprint, especially with older versions of gnupg.
If you really want to isolate the imported key, you can use an ephemeral
GNUPGHOME directory, like so:
export GNUPGHOME=$(mktemp -d)
gpg --import < public-key-file.asc
gpg --fingerprint
rm -rf $GNUPGHOME
with more modern versions of gnupg, you can just use:
gpg --with-fingerprint --import-options show-only --import <
public-key-file.asc
hth,
--dkg
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
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