Check a file?

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:51:41PM -0500, Ben Pearre wrote:
> Say someone mails me a gpg public key.  I want to see whose it is,
> check its signatures and their trust levels, etc, but I don't want to
> add it to my keyring.  How do I do this?

You can get the signatures with "gpg -v the_key_file".

Getting the trust levels is more difficult as they need to be
calculated over your public keyring.  You need to import the key to do
this.

David

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