Dear Maintainer,

When multiple A-usage (sub)keys are found on a user's key, all valid ones are by default emitted
when exporting ssh public key blocks. It would be nice if there was some identifier (e.g. long ID)
in the comments of these ssh pubkeys to identify which A key they correspond to - this would be
helpful in situations where only some of the A privkeys are available (e.g. a smartcard).

Thanks,
Andrew.

This sounds like a reasonable request, though i personally don't like
key IDs in general [0].  What would you think about the full fingerprint
of the subkey?  is that too long?  at least it would be unspoofable.

If we're going for something that can be spoofed/confused, what about
the date of the subkey or something else that's more human-readable?

Sure, I'm happy with full fingerprints for robustness. It doesn't matter
for my use case (discriminating between my own subkeys), but it might to
others so let's do it right. An ssh pubkey is a human-hostile slab of
base64 anyway, so I don't think a few extra characters is worth worrying
about.

It currently puts a date in the comments but AFAICT it's the date that
the export was performed, not the creation date of the source key
material. Since the export is a reproducible process, the date it was
performed is fairly meaningless. Maybe we should forget about emitting
the export date and use the subkey creation date instead?

A

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