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keylookup(1)							  keylookup(1)

NAME
       keylookup - Fetch and Import GnuPG keys from keyservers.

SYNOPSIS
       keylookup [options] search-string

DESCRIPTION
       keylookup  is a wrapper around gpg --search, allowing you to search for
       keys on a keyserver.  It presents the list of matching keys to the user
       and allows her to select the keys for importing into the GnuPG keyring.

       For the search and actual import of keys GnuPG itself is called.

OPTIONS
       --keyserver=keyserver
	       Specify	the keyserver to use. If no keyserver is specified, it
	       will parse the GnuPG options file for a	default	 keyserver  to
	       use.  If no keyserver can be found, keylookup will abort.

       --port=port
	       Use a port other than 11371.

       --frontend=frontend
	       keylookup supports displaying the search results with 3 differ‐
	       ent frondends. Both whiptail and	 dialog	 are  interactive  and
	       allow  the  user to select the keys to import.  The third fron‐
	       tend plain is non-interactive and just prints the keys to  STD‐
	       OUT. The user must then call GnuPG him/herself.

	       If  available,  /usr/bin/dialog	is  the	 default. If it is not
	       available but /usr/bin/whiptail is installed, then this is used
	       instead. If nothing else works, we'll fall back to plain.

       --importall
	       Don't ask the user which keys to import, but instead import all
	       keys matching the search-string. If this is given  no  frontend
	       is needed.

       --honor-http-proxy
	       Similar	to GnuP keylookup will only honor the http_proxy envi‐
	       ronment variable if this option is given. If it	is  not	 given
	       but  your  GnuPG	 options file includes it, then keylookup will
	       use it.

       --help  Print a brief help message and exit successfully.

ENVIRONMENT
       HOME	 Used to locate the default home directory.

       GNUPGHOME If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg".

       GNUPGBIN	 If set used as gpg binary instead of "gpg".

       http_proxy
		 Only honored when the option  --honor-http-proxy  is  set  or
		 honor-http-proxy is set in GnuPG's config file.

EXAMPLES
       keylookup Christian Kurz
	      will query your default keyserver for Christian's keys and offer
	      you to import them into your keyring with	 the  dialog  frontend
	      (if available).

       keylookup --honor-http-proxy --frontend plain wk@gnupg
	      will query the default keyserver again, now using the http_proxy
	      if the environment variable is defined and list wk@gnupg's (Wer‐
	      ner Koch)'s key on STDOUT.

       keylookup --keyserver pgp.mit.edu Peter Palfrader
	      will now ask the keyserver pgp.mit.edu for my (Peter's) keys and
	      display them for import in dialog.

FILES
       ~/.gnupg/options
		 GnuPG's options file where keylookup will take the  keyserver
		 and honor-http-proxy values from if it exists.

SEE ALSO
       gpg(1)

BUGS
       Please	report	 bugs	using	the  Debian  bug  tracking  system  at
       http://bugs.debian.org/.

AUTHORS
       Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
       Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>

Jun-2002							  keylookup(1)

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