Automatic check of key revocation

Erwan David erwan@rail.eu.org
Thu Dec 19 21:28:02 2002


Le Thu 19/12/2002, David Shaw disait
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:45:59AM -0500, mike ledoux wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:28:23PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > > Le Thu 19/12/2002, David Shaw disait
> > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:53:54AM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > > > > 	Is there a way to automatically check if a key was revoked on
> > > > > the key server ? The company I work for wants to enforce this (for an
> > > > > internal keyserver with the keys of people in the company). I cannot
> > > > > find the feature on gnupg.
> > > > 
> > > > Use 'gpg --refresh <keyid>'.  If the key is revoked on the server, the
> > > > key will then be revoked on your local keyring.
> > > 
> > > Isn't there a way to make this automatic ? I need to do this on all
> > > keys from local domain...
> > 
> > 'gpg --refresh-keys' (with no other arguments) will do this for every
> > key on your keyring.  For large keyrings, this can take a lot of time.
> 
> You can also do 'gpg --refresh-keys localdomain' to refresh only keys
> that match localdomain.

Thanks. I think I'll can have gnupg accepted by hierarchy (and not
only PGP 8.0)

-- 
Erwan