gpg --recv-key option

[Marius Strom]

Put http://pgp.mit.edu into your webbrowser, and from there you can search
by email to recieve Hex ID's.

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Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net>
Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator
Alpha1 Internet <http://www.alpha1.net>
http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x42C74CBA

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice...
...In practice, there is a big difference.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:

> I have been speaking back and forth with some users of gpg and am 
> having some problems seeing any posts for my reqests to the group....
> 
> Make a long story short...
> Why is it that if I do something of this nature:
> 
> gpg --keyserver certserver.pgp.com --recv-key email@whoever.com
> 
> I will not receive anything. I am told through communications with 
> yourself that you can only get the id of the key. How can someone have 
> any idea how to retrieve a given persons key off a server if they have 
> to know the id?
> 
> If this is true, what is the logic behind the structure of this? If I 
> am wrong, what am I doing incorrectly.
> 
> I am running Redhat Linux 6.1, Kernel 2.2.13
> gnupg-rsaref-1.0-2
> gnupg-1.0.0-1
>  
> 
> ---
> /helfman
> "At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has 
> always been in your possession."
> 
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