On 28.05.18 18:32, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2018 20:12, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > >>> 1. creating the Autocrypt header: the key is specified to contain >>> exactly one UID one public/signing key and one encryption key. There is >>> no function in GnuPG to extract this from a key. Users that have many >>> UIDs or many subkeys keys cannot use Autocrypt with GnuPG because the >>> header gets too long. See https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/731/ >> >> ok, so this might be typically solvable if we can get GnuPG to fix: > > I have not looked at these bug reports but what Enigmail needs is > already implemented in GnuPG and actively used. The gpg-wks-client does > basically the same; something like > > gpg --import-options=import-export \ > --import-filter keep-uid=uid=THEUSERID \ > --import <THEKEY >STRIPPEDKEY > > I am not sure whether the export-minimal option keeps only the latest > subkeys; this would be easy to add. It might be that is one of the bug > reports you mentioned. In general gpg-wks-client and gpg-wks-server are > worth to look for code snippets utilizing advanced features.
Thanks, I'll look into gpg-wks-*. gpg --import-options=import-export seems to at least allow a part of what is needed. -Patrick
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