Tickets :: [#1040] Add support to fetch GPG keys by fingerprint/id

5.2.0-git

2014-08-01

Summary	Add support to fetch GPG keys by fingerprint/id
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	Git master
Type	Enhancement
State	Rejected
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	enrico.scholz (at) informatik (dot) tu-chemnitz (dot) de
Created	2004-12-30 (3501 days ago)
Due
Updated	2013-11-13 (261 days ago)
Assigned	2004-12-31 (3500 days ago)
Resolved	2013-11-13 (261 days ago)
Milestone	IMP 5.0
Patch	No

2013-11-13 04:24:59	Michael Slusarz	Comment #6 State ⇒ Rejected Version ⇒ Git master	Reply to this comment
Rejecting. This is already done automatically if needed. No need to store local copy of key if it exists on a keyserver.

2008-11-09 10:05:05	Jan Schneider	Summary ⇒ Add support to fetch GPG keys by fingerprint/id

2008-11-09 02:40:43	Chuck Hagenbuch	State ⇒ Accepted

2007-07-30 01:53:06	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #5 State ⇒ Stalled	Reply to this comment
Culling this from the list for IMP 4.2

2005-10-25 21:35:21	Chuck Hagenbuch	State ⇒ Accepted

2005-10-21 20:38:34	Jan Schneider	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Is the idea to add a button in Turba to fetch a PGP key from the keyservers when editting a contact or something else? That would be the obvious place but might be troublesome to implement with the abstract and dynamic nature of Turba.

2005-09-26 10:28:29	Matt Selsky	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
Is the idea to add a button in Turba to fetch a PGP key from the keyservers when editting a contact or something else?

2004-12-31 19:12:30	Michael Slusarz	Comment #2 State ⇒ Assigned	Reply to this comment
For your first request, a patch would be great. Your second request is bogus. There is absolutely nothing (e.g. RFCs) that says that a PGP program MUST use a keyserver to download/get keys. Therefore, if we are going to store any keys locally, it must be the full key text.

2004-12-30 16:42:37	enrico (dot) scholz (at) informatik (dot) tu-chemnitz (dot) de	Comment #1 State ⇒ New Priority ⇒ 1. Low Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ RFE: add support to fetch GPG keys by fingerprint/id Queue ⇒ IMP	Reply to this comment
Please add a way to import GPG keys by giving their fingerprint or ID only (it works already when verifying signatures). Currently, the key has to be extracted manually and entered completely. It would be nice also, when not the GPG key itself but only the identifying fingerprint would be stored in the database.