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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: searching keyservers
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-09-30 17:21:19
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 02:46, Johan Persson wrote:
> I have just begun to use kmail as my default mua, I am using the
> version of the 2.2-BRANCH.
>
> One thing that I miss is being able to search keyservers from within
> kmail when trying to send to a person not in my keyring. I looked at
> the kpgp source and this was a TODO. Is this still true in the HEAD
> branch? And if so, how would one implement this feature.

AFAIK it's currently on noone's todo list. I'm currently working on 
other PGP related things.
It could be implemented as an option in the key dialog which pops up if 
KMail can't find a PGP key which corresponds to one of the recipients 
of an encrypted message. Maybe it would be best to call another program 
(e.g. Geheimnis) to fetch the keys and then continue with KMail. We 
shouldn't put to much key handling stuff into KMail itself because this 
will blow up KMail unnecessarily.

> I have not been able to find another way of searching a keyserver
> then doing it via a HTTP request on port 11371 of the keyserver.

AFAIK this is the standard way of doing it. Some newer keyservers also 
support key lookups via LDAP.

> I thought of implementing a kioslave against the keyserver
> searchfunction to use when retrieving the ID and then use the normal
> gpg --recv-keys ID way of adding the key to ones keyring.
>
> Thoughts?

Do we really need an extra kioslave for this? Can't the HTTP kioslave 
handle these simply key lookups?

Regards,
Ingo
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