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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1/openpgp2ssh.1')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/openpgp2ssh.1 b/man/man1/openpgp2ssh.1 index bea1da5..6141ec5 100644 --- a/man/man1/openpgp2ssh.1 +++ b/man/man1/openpgp2ssh.1 @@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ SSH-style key on standard output. .Pp If the data on standard input contains no subkeys, you can invoke .Nm -without arguments. If the data on standard input contains -multiple keys (e.g. a primary key and associated subkeys), you must -specify a specific OpenPGP keyid (e.g. CCD2ED94D21739E9) or -fingerprint as the first argument to indicate which key to export. -The keyid must be exactly 16 hex characters. +without arguments. If the data on standard input contains multiple +keys (e.g. a primary key and associated subkeys), you must specify a +specific OpenPGP key identifier as the first argument to indicate +which key to export. The key ID is normally the 40 hex digit OpenPGP +fingerprint of the key or subkey desired, but +.Nm +will accept as few as the last 8 digits of the fingerprint as a key +ID. .Pp If the input contains an OpenPGP RSA or DSA public key, it will be converted to the OpenSSH-style single-line keystring, prefixed with @@ -78,8 +81,9 @@ Secret key output is currently not passphrase-protected. .Nm currently cannot handle passphrase-protected secret keys on input. .Pp -It would be nice to be able to use keyids shorter or longer than 16 -hex characters. +Key identifiers consisting of an odd number of hex digits are not +accepted. Users who use a key ID with a standard length of 8, 16, or +40 hex digits should not be affected by this. .Pp .Nm only acts on keys associated with the first primary key |