On Tue 2017-07-18 12:15:29 +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 03:43:52AM -0700, Cody Brownstein wrote: >> gnupgp versions 2.1 and higher store public (and private) keys in keybox >> format in ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx >> >> hkt tries to open ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg which is correct for gnupg >> versions lower than 2.1 >> >> Because hkt tries to open ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg which does not exist, hkt >> fails with the following error: >> >> amnesia@amnesia:~$ hkt export-pubkeys 0x9BB25A1A5C1D9108 >> hkt (hopenpgp-tools) 0.19.4 >> Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Clint Adams >> hkt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you >> are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. >> hkt: /home/amnesia/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: openBinaryFile: does not exist >> (No such file or directory) > > This is true; hOpenPGP has no concept of keybox format, at least for > now.
Is there any reason why hkt should try to use something in the GnuPG
homedir?
Shouldn't hkt prefer an explicitly-named OpenPGP keyring instead? GnuPG
upstream generally doesn't want users poking around in its homedir, and
prefers users to use its documented export and import interfaces.
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