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 different frondends.  Both  whiptail  and
               dialog are interactive and allow the user to select the keys to import.  The third frontend plain
               is non-interactive and just prints the keys to STDOUT. 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 environment 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 (Werner 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 https://bugs.debian.org/.

AUTHORS

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