Re: [Pyme-help] Retrieve key from keyserver

[Jerome C. <je...@ri...>]

Le 2010-07-21 08:46, Werner Koch a écrit :
>> Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010 09:18:22 schrieb Jerome Charaoui:
>>> I'd like to know if it's possible to retrieve a PGP key from a keyserver
>>> with PyMe.
>>>
>>> According to the GPGME documentation, this should be possible by
>>> combining mode.LOCAL with mode.EXTERN. However when I try this I
>>> consistently get a EOF error.
> 
> 
> What this kludge dioes is to use the --locate-keys option of gpg:
> 
> --locate-keys
>         Locate the keys given as arguments.  This command basically uses
>         the same algorithm as used when locating keys for encryption  or
>         signing  and  may  thus be used to see what keys gpg2 might use.
>         In particular external methods as defined  by  --auto-key-locate
>         may be used to locate a key.  Only public keys are listed.

Thanks for the explanation. It seems that --locate-keys is designed to
be used when doing encryption or signing operations.

What I need is, given a fingerprint, simply download the corresponding
public key from a keyserver and load it into a PyMe key object.

If PyMe/GPGME doesn't support this kind of operation, are there other
alternatives to calling /usr/bin/gpg ?

Thanks,

-- Jerome