What are the keyid and finguerprint of a public key in gpg and apt-key?
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https://superuser.com/a/931814/ says
> Here follows an example command to use the GnuPG package's
gpg
command
> to receive a key (-recv-keys
) with the fingerprint 7CE8FC69BE118222
:
>
> $ gpg --recv-keys 7CE8FC69BE118222
Are a key and its fingerprint different concepts?
From manpage of apt-key
:
> apt-key export
>
> Output the key keyid
to standard output.
Are a key and its keyid
different concepts?
Are the keyid
and fingerprint of a key the same concept?
For example, we can first retrieve the key with
-shell
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
and then feed it to apt-key
with
-shell
gpg -a --export E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
Is E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
a key, the keyid
of a key, or the fingerprint of a key?
Why does it still work if I replace E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
with 51716619E084DAB9
?
Asked by Tim
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Mar 30, 2020, 04:33 PM
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