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dion at thinkmoult

Nov 8, 2009, 8:19 AM

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Finding key ID of a keypair

Hello,

I've got myself a DSA keypair, just two files - one being the public key and
the other being the private. I'm trying to find out the ID of that keypair.
However this keypair doesn't show up when I do gpg --list-keys. It's
passphraseless, it's DSA, and that's pretty much all I know. I made it quite a
long time ago, perhaps through ssh-keygen. Is there perhaps a way to add it to
the --list-keys list or find out the keypair ID through an alternative method?

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wk at gnupg

Nov 9, 2009, 2:39 AM

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Re: Finding key ID of a keypair [In reply to]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:19, dion [at] thinkmoult said:

> I've got myself a DSA keypair, just two files - one being the public key and
> the other being the private. I'm trying to find out the ID of that keypair.

A mere

gpg OURFILE

will do

Salam-Shalom,

Werner

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dion at thinkmoult

Nov 9, 2009, 4:08 AM

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Re: Finding key ID of a keypair [In reply to]

On Monday 09 November 2009 18:39:27 Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:19, dion [at] thinkmoult said:
> > I've got myself a DSA keypair, just two files - one being the public key
> > and the other being the private. I'm trying to find out the ID of that
> > keypair.
>
> A mere
>
> gpg OURFILE
>
> will do
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
> Werner
>

Unfortunately it didn't seem to do anything:

localhost ~/.ssh # gpg myfile.key
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: processing message failed: Unknown system error
localhost ~/.ssh # gpg myfile.pub
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: processing message failed: Unknown system error

Where myfile.key is the file containing the private key and myfile.pub is the
file containing the public key.

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wk at gnupg

Nov 9, 2009, 6:37 AM

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Re: Finding key ID of a keypair [In reply to]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:08, dion [at] thinkmoult said:
> localhost ~/.ssh # gpg myfile.key
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: processing message failed: Unknown system error

Probably not an OpenPGP key. You my try

gpg --list-packets myfile.key

to dump the packets, but this is unlikely to show something else than
running just gpg on the file.

Chech that the file is a proper OpePGP file and has been downloded
correctly. Often FTP is not used coreclty and breaks binary files.

Salam-Shalom,

Werner

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tmz at pobox

Nov 9, 2009, 6:50 AM

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Re: Finding key ID of a keypair [In reply to]

Dion Moult wrote:
> It's passphraseless, it's DSA, and that's pretty much all I know. I
> made it quite a long time ago, perhaps through ssh-keygen.

If you created the key with ssh-keygen, then it's an SSH key, not an
OpenPGP key. The two systems, ssh and gpg, do not use the same key
formats. For an ssh key, you can print out the key's fingerprint
using ssh-keygen -l -f /path/to/key

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