Fetching keys from key servers?

[Werner Koch]

Matti Airas <mairas@iki.fi> writes:

> Are there any plans to make gnupg support fetching keys from key
> servers using user ID as the search criteria? The current method of
> supporting key ID's only is not too useful, since for the trouble of
> looking for the key ID is as big as fetching the keys manually.

Yes, sure.  The current solution is just there to play with the HKS
protokoll ;-).  We won't to move the network code out of gpg and
create an extra tool (like urlview from Mutt) to communicate with
keyservers.  

I might hack 1.0 later to support this but the real thing will be done
during the 1.1 development.


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