diff --git a/upload-file.py b/upload-file.py
index dffb31f..6ed0b6e 100644
--- a/upload-file.py
+++ b/upload-file.py
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ user_name = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(10))
 email = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(10)) + "@"\
         + ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(5)) + domain
 passphrase = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for _ in range(5))
-key_server = "eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net" #any key server is good as it will propogate world wide
+
+#any key server is good as it will propogate world wide
+key_server = "eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net"
 
 #unattended key generation
 p = subprocess.Popen('gpg2 --batch --pinentry-mode=loopback --passphrase ' + passphrase +\
@@ -29,10 +31,10 @@ p = subprocess.Popen('gpg2 --batch --pinentry-mode=loopback --passphrase ' + pas
 out, err = p.communicate()
 
 #get pub key
-p = subprocess.Popen('gpg2 --list-key ' + email, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+p = subprocess.Popen('gpg2 --list-key --with-colons ' + email, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 out, err = p.communicate()
-
-key = out.split()[6] # parse out the key so we can use to send keys to the key servers
+# parse out the key id so we can use it to send keys to the key servers
+key = key = [x.replace(':', '').replace('fpr', '') for x in out.split() if "fpr" in x][0] 
 
 #open file in binary and break it up into 1305byte chunks
 chunk_list = []