Key ID in pgpverify

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jan 17 00:07:07 UTC 2010


Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> I'm trying to work on "Support a PGP key ID in control.ctl"
>    http://inn.eyrie.org/trac/ticket/75

> and I thought about adding the -keyid flag to pgpverify, so as to modify
> its output, returning a key ID instead of a user ID.
> Then controlchan would either use "pgpverify" or "pgpverify -keyid",
> depending on what follows "verify-" (an hex string).

> 22:55 news at trigo ~% pgpverify < sample.control
> news.announce.newgroups

> 22:55 news at trigo ~% pgpverify -keyid < sample.control
> C25D3AD3B88DA9C1

> However, what do we do for PGP implementations that do not return
> the key ID?  I for instance see:

>  # MIT PGP 2.6.2 and PGP 6.5.2:
>  #   Good signature from user "Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>".

The output from PGP 2.6.3a is:

Good signature from user "news.announce.newgroups".
Signature made 2010/01/17 00:06 GMT using 1024-bit key, key ID B88DA9C1

I'm afraid I don't have copies of any of the other programs.

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