looking up pgp keys

[Tim Prepscius]

awesomeness.

&options=mr it is.

thanks,

-tim

On 9/8/13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 07:29 PM, Tim Prepscius wrote:
>> I'm looking at the pgp mit server and the http://pool.sks-keyservers.net.
>>
>> I do not see a way of forcing the search results format from html into
>> something more conducive to machine parsing.  (aka json)
>>
>> I've tried random things like: &format=json, &fmt=json, &plzcanhavjson=1
>> None have worked.  Parsing the html isn't just a big deal, but ....
>>
>> Does anyone know a way of doing this?
>
> SKS is the dominant implementation of OpenPGP keyserver infrastructure
> these days.  most of the servers in the pool you're referring to run
> SKS.  So the best place to ask this kind of question is on the  SKS
> development list <sks-devel at nongnu.org>.
>
> That said, the "machine-parsable" format is of a much older vintage than
> json :)
>
> The spec for HKP suggests that you need to supply the "mr" variable in
> the query string:
>
>   https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00#section-3.2.1.1
>
> and then read the line-oriented text-based output format:
>
>   https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00#section-5
>
> hth,
>
> 	--dkg
>
>