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Allow gpgme to export w/o attributes
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In src/engine-gpg.c , in the function export_common, there's this snippet:

if ((mode & GPGME_EXPORT_MODE_MINIMAL))
  {
    if ((mode & GPGME_EXPORT_MODE_NOUID))
      err = add_arg (gpg, "--export-options=export-minimal,export-drop-uids");
    else
      err = add_arg (gpg, "--export-options=export-minimal");
  }

However, recent versions of gnupg require --export-options=export-minimal,no-export-attributes to drop the uid.

I don't know how to add compatibility with older GPG versions to gpgme, but if that is not needed the fix is simple of course.

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Version
1.15.1

Revisions and Commits

rM GPGME
rMc8fd8870b3bf core: Remove experimental feature GPGME_EXPORT_MODE_NOUID.

Event Timeline

jap created this task.Feb 1 2021, 3:18 PM
• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Feb 1 2021, 4:50 PM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.

Oops, that was an experimental feature never intended for a released version. Will be removed in a way that it does not leas to compile problems - just to be extra cautiousness.

Thanks for reporting.

jap added a comment.Feb 1 2021, 5:18 PM

Not exactly the answer I was hoping for..

For generating autocrypt headers, I'm looking for a way to do the minimal and no-attributes export, and this seemed to be the right direction. Or should this NOUID flag have a name that better matches the GPG cli?

There's this thread as well: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-January/028135.html but that patch seems to have been abandoned. Would you mind if I try reviving it?

• werner added a comment.Feb 1 2021, 5:50 PM

A public keyblock without a user id packet is non-compliant. I see no reason to provide a feature to created crippled data. We had all this discussions back in the early 90s regarding to self-signatures. OpenPGP spoke a final word on this in 1998 by making user ids and corresponding self-signatures mandatory.

Dropping attributes is a different thing than user ids. I probably forgot about your patch. Repurposing that flag value for dropping attributes makes sense to me.

• werner added a commit: rMc8fd8870b3bf: core: Remove experimental feature GPGME_EXPORT_MODE_NOUID..Feb 1 2021, 7:13 PM
• werner renamed this task from gpgme uses incorrect flags for minimal, no uid export of public keys to Allow gpgme to export w/o attributes.Jun 24 2021, 6:24 PM
• werner edited projects, added Feature Request; removed Bug Report.