querying multiple keyservers

[darren chamberlain]

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* Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> [2003-04-23 15:07]:
> I was thinking of the same thing for my own LUG. Darren, I looked at
> your idea myself but only if the sync was uni-directional. If the
> smaller keyserver sends keys to the main keyservers, the functionality
> of removing keys is lost.

Hm, good point.

> Is a keyserver just a public ring with extra software added?

This seems like a simple, straightforward way to implement it, but I've
never looked at any keyserver code.  A simple script that (basically)
calls gpg --list-keys on it's input could qualify as a keyserver I
suppose:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  
  use strict;
  my $gpg = "/usr/local/bin/gpg";
  
  use CGI;
  my $q = CGI->new;
  my $fpr = $q->param("fpr");
  
  print $q->header("text/plain");
  
  open KEY, "$gpg --list-keys --with-colons $fpr |";
  
  while (<KEY>) {
      next unless /^pub/;
      my @Key = split /:/ => $_;
  
      print `$gpg --export --armor $Key[4]`;
  }


(darren)

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