gpg --recv-key option

[Marius Strom]

Searching by {email,lastname,firstname,anything but the keyid} is very
susceptible to security issues, IMHO.  I think taking the extra step to
getting the KeyID is a "good thing"(tm).

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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

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...In practice, there is a big difference.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:

> this is my point exactly....!!!!
> 
> you have to know the hex. And this is not a friendly search for gpg... 
> you should be able to search by email address, last name and hex....
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick J. Lawrence" <pjlawrence@ucdavis.edu>
> Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:30 pm
> Subject: Re: gpg --recv-key option
> 
> > > 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...
> > 
> > Yes, you can.  To get Marius' key:
> > 
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 42C74CBA    
> > 
> > Pat
> > -- 
> > Patrick Lawrence
> > Distributed Computing Analysis and Support
> > University of California at Davis
> > 
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