keylookup(1)

1keylookup(1)                                                      keylookup(1)
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NAME

6       keylookup - Fetch and Import GnuPG keys from keyservers.
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SYNOPSIS

10       keylookup [options] search-string
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DESCRIPTION

14       keylookup  is a wrapper around gpg --search, allowing you to search for
15       keys on a keyserver.  It presents the list of matching keys to the user
16       and allows her to select the keys for importing into the GnuPG keyring.
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18       For the search and actual import of keys GnuPG itself is called.
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OPTIONS

23       --keyserver=keyserver
24               Specify  the keyserver to use. If no keyserver is specified, it
25               will parse the GnuPG options file for a  default  keyserver  to
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30               Use a port other than 11371.
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34               keylookup supports displaying the search results with 3 differ‐
35               ent frondends. Both whiptail and  dialog  are  interactive  and
36               allow  the  user to select the keys to import.  The third fron‐
37               tend plain is non-interactive and just prints the keys to  STD‐
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40               If  available,  /usr/bin/dialog  is  the  default. If it is not
41               available but /usr/bin/whiptail is installed, then this is used
42               instead. If nothing else works, we'll fall back to plain.
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46               Don't ask the user which keys to import, but instead import all
47               keys matching the search-string. If this is given  no  frontend
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52               Similar  to GnuP keylookup will only honor the http_proxy envi‐
53               ronment variable if this option is given. If it  is  not  given
54               but  your  GnuPG  options file includes it, then keylookup will
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58       --help  Print a brief help message and exit successfully.
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ENVIRONMENT

64       HOME      Used to locate the default home directory.
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EXAMPLES

78       keylookup Christian Kurz
79              will query your default keyserver for Christian's keys and offer
80              you to import them into your keyring with  the  dialog  frontend
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84       keylookup --honor-http-proxy --frontend plain wk@gnupg
85              will query the default keyserver again, now using the http_proxy
86              if the environment variable is defined and list wk@gnupg's (Wer‐
87              ner Koch)'s key on STDOUT.
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91              will now ask the keyserver pgp.mit.edu for my (Peter's) keys and
92              display them for import in dialog.
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FILES

97       ~/.gnupg/options
98                 GnuPG's options file where keylookup will take the  keyserver
99                 and honor-http-proxy values from if it exists.
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BUGS

108       Please   report   bugs   using   the  Debian  bug  tracking  system  at
109       http://bugs.debian.org/.
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AUTHORS

114       Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
115       Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
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119Jun-2002                                                          keylookup(1)