key server query tool

Stefan Claas stefan.claas at posteo.de
Sun Nov 18 18:15:58 CET 2018


On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:15:01 +0100, Stefan Claas wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 17:57:47 +0100, Dirk Gottschalk wrote:
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> > Am Sonntag, den 18.11.2018, 17:41 +0100 schrieb Stefan Claas:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > while i do respect the privacy of people, i was wondering,
> > > since i see the public key server network as a public data
> > > base containing full names and who signed who's public
> > > key, if there is a tool available (source code preferably
> > > written in Golang) which allows a user to connect to
> > > a key server and do a query in a form that it spits out
> > > all the data where a name or key id appears.
> > > 
> > > The idea behind this is that i can see if for example
> > > Mallory signed someone else's public, with my key
> > > after it got compromised and i am not aware of it.
> > > 
> > > I know that there are projects running which show
> > > the strong set etc. but i like only see simple
> > > data like my name or my key id/fp on someone
> > > else's public key.  
> > 
> > Only the UID's and Key-ID's can be queried from the Servers, not the
> > Data from the signatures, for example. AFAIK.
> 
> That's a pity. If a tool could for example query the whole key block
> downloaded from a reliable source, that would be o.k. too, but
> i wanted to avoid to download 12gigs or so and then refresh
> all the time.
> 
> Regards
> Stefan
> 


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