Wish: --recv-signers-of

[Len Sassaman]

I second this request. (I believe I requested it once of gpg in the past.
I know it was on my wish-list at PGP.)




--Len.

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> Occasionally, it's practical to batch-fetch all keys which have
> signed a certain other public key, in order to look whether you can
> find some well-authenticated keys of trustworthy individuals there.
>
> Of course, this can be easily automated like this:
>
> 	gpg --check-sigs <some-id> | awk '/^sig/ { print $2 }' | \
> 		sort -u > k
> 	gpg --recv-keys `cat k`
>
> But still, a gnupg option to do this without resorting to the shell
> could be quite practical.
>
> --
> Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/
>

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