WKD Support

[vsajip]

Original report by Steve Recio (Bitbucket: steverecio, GitHub: steverecio).

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Are there plans to support web key directory lookups? Ie. gpg --locate-key torvalds@kernel.org?

[vsajip]

You could use the search_keys() and recv_keys() APIs for this. Note that --locate-key is only available in fairly recent versions of GnuPG:

$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11
[other output omitted]

$ gpg2 --locate-key torvalds@kernel.org
[no output from gpg, returns instantly]

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/tmp/lib ~/tmp/bin/gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.14
[other output omitted]

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/tmp/lib ~/tmp/bin/gpg --locate-key torvalds@kernel.org
gpg: error retrieving 'torvalds@kernel.org' via WKD: No data
gpg: error reading key: No data

No current plans to implement this support myself, but I will look at any proposed patches.

[vsajip]

Closing, as no patches received.