gpg --recv-key option

[Jason Helfman]

So this can't be done via the shell, if this is what I am seeing? I 
know that you can do this with pgp6...

----- Original Message -----
From: Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: gpg --recv-key option

> Put http://pgp.mit.edu into your webbrowser, and from there you 
> can search
> by email to recieve Hex ID's.
> 
> -- 
> Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net>
> Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator
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> 
> 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."
> > 
> > Fingerprint: 2F76 2856 776A 3E07 9F3E  452A 17D9 9B28 D75E 0A36
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> > 
> 
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