Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2015-01-01 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 1 January 2015 at 9:55:18 PM, in , Ingo Klöcker wrote: > I haven't tried with gpg 1.4, but with gpg 2.0.22 it's > as easy as > # gpg --with-fingerprint key.gpg I just tested with GnuPG 1.4.18 and it worked. - -- Best regards

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2015-01-01 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/31/2014 08:59 PM, Kelly Dean wrote: I thought my original message made clear that I was trying to get the fingerprint. The point of my message was that GPG apparently requires pointless circumlocution for this simple function. No, your original message contained nothing but the output o

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2015-01-01 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Thursday 01 January 2015 04:59:37 Kelly Dean wrote: > Getting the fingerprint should not require importing the key. Getting the > fingerprint should not require writing to any file at all. It should only > require reading. I haven't tried with gpg 1.4, but with gpg 2.0.22 it's as easy as # gpg

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2015-01-01 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/01/2015 05:59 AM, Kelly Dean wrote: > Ryan Sawhill wrote: >> I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a >> tutorial since the man page clearly didn't work for you. > > The man page did work for me, and I was able to accom

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2015-01-01 Thread Kelly Dean
Ryan Sawhill wrote: > I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a tutorial > since the man page clearly didn't work for you. The man page did work for me, and I was able to accomplish my goal. > (As far as I can tell, you were trying to import someone's pubkey, in which > case

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I agree, this output is not user friendly at all, but did you try instead `$ gpg —edit-key which should start the `gpg` program (interactive environment with the `gpg>` prompt, and then you do `gpg> fpr` to display the fingerprint. The problem with commands of this type `gpg — `,

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-31 Thread Brian Minton
It seemed to me that all Kelly was trying to do was print the fingerprint of a key from a file. On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Ryan Sawhill wrote: > I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a tutorial > since the man page clearly didn't work for you. > > (As far as I can t

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-30 Thread Ryan Sawhill
I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a tutorial since the man page clearly didn't work for you. (As far as I can tell, you were trying to import someone's pubkey, in which case you should simply have used: gpg --import FILE) ___

GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-30 Thread Kelly Dean
# gpg key.gpg pub 2048D/7FBDEF9B 2014-09-24 GNU ELPA Signing Agent # gpg key.gpg --fingerprint usage: gpg [options] [filename] # gpg --fingerprint key.gpg gpg: error reading key: public key not found # man gpg # mkdir tmp # cp key.gpg tmp/pubring.gpg # gpg --fingerprint --homedir tmp/ gpg: WARNIN