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PGP key fingerprints.

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NODE 1d570e9ePGP key fingerprints. GRABOW_GEOFFREY@tandem.comWed, 23 Mar 94 00:13:33 PST

C'punks,
    Is there any way to get PGP to display the fingerprint of a public ke
before you add it to your keyring?  I know that the -kvc command displays
'em for keys in your ring, but can you display one for a key in an ASCII
armoured file?

                                              Thanks,
                                                     G.C.G.

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-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQCNAiz/qhsAAAEEAN4QxTfSBoeP/FCiaX0/KmCkl6BcKRa1PeoP6ZlPWydg1nOx
yZAk8pIdgiGxxgiMBMsqD+SrU+Sl1Fx1AdJ14HJsBp1V6G4rBTZqvFpbNPCfrQfz
K/Apg+7bBpi5Qv+sQ0TWIy38zp/laArgcdUOpE4oE2UOUBVEtYvm47K2P+i5AAUR
tC9HZW9mZnJleSBDLiBHcmFib3cgPGdyYWJvd19nZW9mZnJleUB0YW5kZW0uY29t
Pg==
=2NWi
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

NODE 25061e3bRe: PGP key fingerprints. Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>Wed, 23 Mar 94 00:20:54 PST

No.  The only way to do this would be to tell PGP to use this file as
a keyring, but you can't do that if its in ASCII armor.  Besides, the
fingerprint was designed to be used to verify the key when you sign
it, not as anything that should be used to know whether you want to
add the key to the keyring, therefore it is only possible to -kvc
something on your keyring.

FYI: If you say that yes, you want to sign it, while you are adding it
to your keyring, it will then display the fingerprint for you.

Hope this answers your question.

-derek

NODE 4e25a3aeRe: PGP key fingerprints. Jim Gillogly <jim@rand.org>Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:37:04 PST

> GRABOW_GEOFFREY@tandem.com writes:
> Is there any way to get PGP to display the fingerprint of a public ke
> before you add it to your keyring?  I know that the -kvc command displays

I sometimes add them to a temporary keyring (pgp -ka file.asc testring)
and then do pgp -kvc "*" testring so I can see what I'm about to stick in
there.  I didn't bother before somebody or other (was that you, Hal?)
demonstrated that he could change the name on Phil's PGP key, and I didn't
want it polluting my <real> keyring.

	Jim Gillogly
	Sterday, 1 Astron S.R. 1994, 16:36