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--fingerprint and --with-fingerprint create slightly different results
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Description

This has been reported by a Debian user and it is to my opinion a bug. The
output of --fingerprint <keyid> and --with-fingerprint <keyfile> are slightly
different. Using the reporters example:

% gpg --with-fingerprint AC15B50C.asc
pub 1024D/AC15B50C 2004-12-26 Evgeni -SargentD- Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net>

Key fingerprint = 0C04 F872 0963 ADC9 AA83  882B 24A0 1418 AC15 B50C

uid Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.eu>
[..]

% gpg --fingerprint AC15B50C
pub 1024D/AC15B50C 2004-12-26

Key fingerprint = 0C04 F872 0963 ADC9 AA83  882B 24A0 1418 AC15 B50C

uid Evgeni -SargentD- Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net>
uid Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.eu>
[..]

In the first case the first UID is above the fingerprint. This seems to cause
issues with gpgsigs.

Details

External Link
http://bugs.debian.org/682064
Version
1.4.12

Event Timeline

• dleidert set External Link to http://bugs.debian.org/682064.Jul 19 2012, 11:48 PM
• dleidert added projects: gnupg, Bug Report, Debian.
• dleidert set Version to 1.4.12.
• dleidert added a subscriber: • dleidert.
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Jul 20 2012, 9:48 AM

The first example runs gpg on a file and displays what it sees in the file. The
--with-fingerprint only adds the fingerprint. The second example is a shortcut
for --list-keys --with-fingerprint and lists the keys known to gpg.

Given that running gpg on any file is not well defined; I would consider this a
minor bug. However, gpg 2.1 messes the output completely up and thus I need to
do something for it. But not for 1.4.

• werner added a project: gnupg (gpg21).Sep 17 2014, 7:00 PM
neal closed this task as Resolved.Nov 17 2015, 9:31 PM
neal claimed this task.

It looks like this problem has been fixed in the meantime. As such, I'm marking
this bug as resolved. Thanks.

$ gpg2 --with-fingerprint 4F43C989.txt
pub rsa1024/4F43C989 2015-11-17

Key fingerprint = A8D8 E9B9 D25D 6AB8 9997  AEE4 3817 872D 4F43 C989

uid Testing <testing@testing.com>
sub rsa1024/3CAD33EE 2015-11-17
sub rsa1024/FE39BBA1 2015-11-17
sub elg1024/A10351BD 2015-11-17
$ gpg2 --fingerprint 4F43C989
pub rsa1024/4F43C989 2015-11-17

Key fingerprint = A8D8 E9B9 D25D 6AB8 9997  AEE4 3817 872D 4F43 C989

uid [ unknown] Testing <testing@testing.com>
sub rsa1024/3CAD33EE 2015-11-17
sub rsa1024/FE39BBA1 2015-11-17
sub elg1024/A10351BD 2015-11-17