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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: searching keyservers
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-01 21:39:25
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 20:37, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2001 02:46, Johan Persson wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > And if so, how would one implement this feature.
>
> You can choose to add the keyserver option to your .gnupg/options
> file. Then gnupg will try to fetch a key from the keyserver if it
> doesn't find it in the keyring.

As I already replied to Jason's message this works only while verifing 
signatures. It doesn't work if you want to encrypt a message to a 
recipient who's key you lack. In this case it would be very nice if we 
had an option to search for a key of this person on the keyservers. Of 
course the key will need to be signed by the user before it can be used 
to encrypt a message. Therefore we might consider starting an external 
program (like Geheimnis) to search, add and sign the key.

> > 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.
>
> There's LDAP, too, and the CVS gnupg version (read: gnupg, not kmail)
> has experimental support for that. I have a little patch here
> (already posted to the ml) that does two things:
>
> 1. It uses red for the waring message on invalid signature
> 2. makes any unknown key-id a href anchor that links to a keyserver
>
> Search the archive or ask me in private when you don't find it.
>
> > 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?
>
> Overkill.

Then how should we make it possible to look up keys of recipients on the 
fly?

Regards,
Ingo
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