-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 4 Apr 1996 jpps@voicenet.com wrote:

Is there a reliable method for obtaining the pgp public key for an arbitrary email address? elm-2.4pl24pgp3 does a logical join on my local alias and keyring files; what I'm looking for is a way for my mua/mta to obtain keys I do not have.

I've caught some of the discussion on key servers, and noted some people's use of their signature, plan, or home page to distribute their keys. Are some combination of these suitable today? Is there a parseable convention in use for extracting keys from mail/finger/html? Is there a "get_keyd" floating about?

Mkpgp does what you describe. You can get it by sending mail to slutsky@ lipschitz.sfasu.edu with a subject of "mkpgp". As for extracting keys from finger info or a web page, you can just run pgp on a file containing the user's homepage or .plan file. On Unix, a command like "finger user@host. domain | pgp -kaf" will work. Basically a combination of fingering the user and querying the key servers will work most of the time. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMWRUeLZc+sv5siulAQE82gP/ffidQVvrdrCizxb+0pAbNRsF0k2AcZpz ukqDuEv082zRV4JHcUodgKjIQ6EMH7P4zw+5HTgzIRp1jNl0k82XZn6NdYMlfIsE FOui0/P2i4LTwDAP5zl3lUQmq1x8pxnHNi195m1xP7e9KfTYpXPtxhQuhyp3LJCg pVSMDBpcTL0= =7u18 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----