Questions re auto-key-locate

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Tue Feb 15 22:43:43 CET 2022


On Dienstag, 15. Februar 2022 21:32:50 CET Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via Gnupg-users 
wrote:
> Worse still, if you know a key exists via something like DANE (dayjob
> makes DNS software, we like the idea of it being available via DANE),
> there's no way to do gpg --search via DANE, only via a keyserver.
> 
> Thus, using that as a prefetch method to grab the current version of our
> codesign@ key into our keyring is not helpful either, unless we "faked it"
> by attempting to encrypt a message to that address, then discarded it.
> 
> Is there another way forward?  The normal things for auto-key-locate don't
> seem to help here.  I'm open to ideas.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but you can use --locate-keys instead 
of a "faked" --encrypt to look up keys by email address.

Regards,
Ingo
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