Wish: --recv-signers-of

[Peter Palfrader]

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On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> Occasionally, it's practical to batch-fetch all keys which have=20
> signed a certain other public key, in order to look whether you can=20
> find some well-authenticated keys of trustworthy individuals there.
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> Of course, this can be easily automated like this:
>=20
> 	gpg --check-sigs <some-id> | awk '/^sig/ { print $2 }' | \
> 		sort -u > k
> 	gpg --recv-keys `cat k`
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> But still, a gnupg option to do this without resorting to the shell=20
> could be quite practical.

And while we're at wishes: An option to update all keys in the keyring
from a keyserver would be a nice feature too.

% gpg --fast-list-mode --list-keys | grep "^pub " | cut -b 12-20 | xargs gp=
g --recv


					yours,
					peter

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