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

6.0.0-beta1

7/18/25

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	12/30/2004 (7505 days ago)
Due
Updated	11/13/2013 (4265 days ago)
Assigned	12/31/2004 (7504 days ago)
Resolved	11/13/2013 (4265 days ago)
Milestone	IMP 5.0
Patch	No

11/13/2013 04:24:59 AM	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.

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

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

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

10/25/2005 09:35:21 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	State ⇒ Accepted

10/21/2005 08:38:34 PM	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.

09/26/2005 10:28:29 AM	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?

12/31/2004 07:12:30 PM	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.

12/30/2004 04:42:37 PM	enrico (dot) scholz (at) informatik (dot) tu-chemnitz (dot) de	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ RFE: add support to fetch GPG keys by fingerprint/id Queue ⇒ IMP State ⇒ New	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.