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I'm trying to understand better how GnuPG works. When I run:
gpg --edit-key chloe
I would expect to see something like this (from the GnuPG privacy handbook):
Secret key is available.
pub 1024D/26B6AAE1 created: 1999-06-15 expires: never trust: -/u
sub 2048g/0CF8CB7A created: 1999-06-15 expires: never
sub 1792G/08224617 created: 1999-06-15 expires: 2002-06-14
sub 960D/B1F423E7 created: 1999-06-15 expires: 2002-06-14
(1) Chloe (Jester) <chloe@cyb.org>
(2) Chloe (Plebian) <chloe@tel.net>
with the public key listed alongside any subkeys.
Instead what I see is:
Secret key is available.
sec 2048g/0CF8CB7A created: 1999-06-15 expires: never usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb 960D/B1F423E7 created: 1999-06-15 expires: never usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Chloe (Jester) <chloe@cyb.org>
Why is there a difference between my output and the example output?
Could somebody give an explanation of what my output means?
Opening a bug report seems to be reasonable. I put this on my todo list and will open one after verifying the issue further and looking up whether there already is a matching issue, but will not get around to do so within the next days. If you open one, please drop a link to the report here (and consider referencing this Q&A in the bug report). – Jens Erat – 2017-07-15T18:08:43.420