Question about specifics of --locate-key option

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:21, gnupg-users at gnupg.org said:
> This, as it turns out, does not trigger WKD. Removing "<" and ">" sure
> enough does the trick and the key is found.

The gnupg internal function to extract the addrspec is
mailbox_from_userid and its test program t-mbox-utils.c has these
vectors:
        /* input */                   /* Output, NULL = invalid */
      { "Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>", "wk at gnupg.org" },
      { "<wk at gnupg.org>", "wk at gnupg.org" },
      { "wk at gnupg.org", "wk at gnupg.org" },
      { "wk at gnupg.org ", NULL },
      ...

Whis indicates that it should work.  By adding a "--debug lookup" to the
gpg invocation you might be abale to see more.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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