import of external certificates via command line

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 21:49, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:34, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:23, jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de said:
> > > I wonder whether there is a way to import an external certificate
> > > (found with gpgsm --list-external-keys  MyName
> > > ) via command line ... ?
> >
> > Just use it within a couple of hours after --list-external-keys.  You
> > can list these certifciates:
> >
> >   gpg --with-ephemeral --list-keys
>
> yes, I can see the certificate (using gpgsm, not gpg, of course).
>
> > By using them, they are made permanent.
>
> How do I do this? I tried to encrypt something to this ID
> but gpgsm says it is an unknown key.
> I exported the key successfully, but this did not make it permanent.
> Then I imported it successfully.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to have --recv-keys implemented
> for gpgsm with the method to search a key and then import it?
> Currently, --recv-keys says it is not implemented.

Any solution to this meanwhile?

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