Downloading public keys with GnuPG

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:41:57AM +0300, Maxim Britov wrote:
> > > I just switched from PGP to GnuPG.  I now use Mozilla with Enigmail. 
> > > There is only one problem.  How do you download public keys from a 
> > > keyserver with GnuPG/Enigmail ??
> 
> > gpg --recv-keys <key-id>
> 
> My keyring:
> pub  1024D/6F3DB1FB 2003-06-05 Maxim ...
> uid                            Maxim ...
> uid                            Maxim ...
> sub  2048g/7875B07B 2003-06-05 [expires: 2004-06-04]
> I can get key from keyserver: gpg --search-key 0x6f3db1fb
> and cannot get for: gpg --search-key 0x7875b07b.
> Why? How I can find key if that is so?

Most keyservers do not yet support searching by subkey ID.  The only
ones that currently do support this are the LDAP keyservers, and even
then, you must use the long keyid (e.g. 0xDB698D7199242560 instead of
0x99242560).

David
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