Query keyserver with email address [was: invalid armor header]

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Aug 14 13:42:02 2002


On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:45:05AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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> On 13-Aug-2002/18:45 -0400, Anita Lewis <ajlewis2@intac.com> wrote:
> >I assume that if I do not know the Key ID, I must go to the server and check
> >their email address to find it.  Or is there someway to query the server
> >with a gpg command using the email address?
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> That feature is not available yet.

It is available in 1.0.7.

  gpg --keyserver (whatever) --search-keys email@example.com

It works for the LDAP keyserver as well as most of the HKP and
HKP-alike servers.

David

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