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The name of the key owned by the current user. A '*' as part of the key name will be interpreted as a wildcard character, 
and information about all key names matching the wildcard character will be displayed. 
OUTPUT format of INFO KEY command 
If used without the DETAIL modifier, INFO KEY will provide a brief summary for each key displayed. The following is 
an example of the output of INFO KEY: 
% info key *:* 
info key *:* 
KEY TYPE USER LIFE-CYCLE LAST-USE STATUS 
mytestkey RSA mh PENDING *NONE* THAWED 
tst4 RSA stus PENDING *NONE* THAWED 
new1 RSA super.super LIVE 08Jul11,18:22 THAWED 
us2  RSA super.super EXPIRED *NONE* THAWED 
tstky RSA tb PENDING *NONE* THAWED 
ky99 RSA test PENDING *NONE* THAWED 
% 
If used with the DETAIL modifier, INFO KEY will provide some detailed information about each key displayed. The 
following is an example of the output of INFO KEY, DETAIL: 
% info key new1,detail 
info key new1,detail 
KEY TYPE USER LIFE-CYCLE LAST-USE STATUS 
new1 RSA super.super LIVE 08Jul11,18:22 THAWED 
 KEY new1 
 COMMENT 
 USER super.super 
 TYPE RSA 
 BITS 1024 
 PUBLICKEY-FINGERPRINT 
 MD5 e1:96:56:e2:d3:f1:96:3a:c6:00:78:6e:8f:4a:76:37 
 BABBLE xicef-sineb-gopiv-byfeb-lahal-vidan-kimev-cekoh-zylyp-manav-zexix 
 CREATION-DATE 04May11,22:40 
 LIVE-DATE 01Jun11,00:00 
 EXPIRE-DATE 31Aug11,12:30 
 LIFE-CYCLE-STATE LIVE 
 LAST-USE 08Jul11,18:22 
 LAST-MODIFIED 08Jul11,19:01 
 STATUS THAWED 
% 
The fields of the output of INFO KEY have the following meaning: 
COMMENT 
A comment as entered when generating, importing, or altering the key. 
USER 
The system user who owns the private key. 
TYPE 
The type of the key. 
BITS 
The key length in bits. 
PUBLICKEY-FINGERPRINT 
Both the MD5 and bubble-babble fingerprint of the public key. 
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