Re: default keyring file formats
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:05, jw72...@verizon.net said: Hi, David. I appreciated your prompt reply. So with a concatenated keyring in the format foo.pub would I first use a command like the following one if I want to get the keys out of it in order to move No, please don't do that! The API to access the keyrings are the --import and --export commands. It might work now but may change at any time. It is not a good idea to suggest this use. For example the file ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg and ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg use private extensions to the OpenPGP format. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
default keyring file formats
A lot of the documentation I see online includes references to files with names like foo.pub or foo.sec as if these were public key rings and secret key rings. However, I am accustomed to seeing keyrings like pubring.gpg and secring.gpg. Were the former of these used as keyring files in the past, but nowadays the latter format are used? John A. Wallace The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if you get in the first stroke. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: default keyring file formats
On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:27 PM, John A. Wallace jw72...@verizon.net wrote: A lot of the documentation I see online includes references to files with names like “foo.pub” or “foo.sec” as if these were public key rings and secret key rings. However, I am accustomed to seeing keyrings like “pubring.gpg” and “secring.gpg”. Were the former of these used as keyring files in the past, but nowadays the latter format are used? Keyrings of that type are just files with multiple keys concatenated together. The format is effectively the same no matter what the filename is. I've often seen foo.pub / foo.sec as a single key (while the pubring.gpg, pubring.pgp, or pubring.pkr) is the keyring, but that's just convention. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: default keyring file formats
David Shaw wrote in message news:A85519AA-6166-48A8-91C8-312ADB5B7EEC__1406.68022581867$1361331370$gmane$o...@jabberwocky.com... On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:27 PM, John A. Wallace jw72...@verizon.net wrote: A lot of the documentation I see online includes references to files with names like “foo.pub” or “foo.sec” as if these were public key rings and secret key rings. However, I am accustomed to seeing keyrings like “pubring.gpg” and “secring.gpg”. Were the former of these used as keyring files in the past, but nowadays the latter format are used? Keyrings of that type are just files with multiple keys concatenated together. The format is effectively the same no matter what the filename is. I've often seen foo.pub / foo.sec as a single key (while the pubring.gpg, pubring.pgp, or pubring.pkr) is the keyring, but that's just convention. David Hi, David. I appreciated your prompt reply. So with a concatenated keyring in the format foo.pub would I first use a command like the following one if I want to get the keys out of it in order to move them and import them into a default (i.e., conventional) keyring of the format pubring.gpg: gpg --export --no-default-keyring --keyring foo.pub --armor --output pubkey_file John ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
