.TH keylookup 1 "" Jun-2002 ""
.\" manual page (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Christian Kurz, Peter Palfrader

.SH NAME
.LP
keylookup - Fetch and Import GnuPG keys from keyservers.

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkeylookup\fP [\fIoptions\fP] \fIsearch-string\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
\fBkeylookup\fR 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.


.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB\-\-keyserver\fP=\fIkeyserver\fP" 8
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, \fBkeylookup\fP will abort.

.IP "\fB\-\-port\fP=\fIport\fP" 8
Use a port other than 11371.

.IP "\fB\-\-frontend\fP=\fIfrontend\fP" 8
\fBkeylookup\fP supports displaying the search results with 3
different frondends. Both \fBwhiptail\fP and \fBdialog\fP are
interactive and allow the user to select the keys to import.
The third frontend \fBplain\fP is non\-interactive and just 
prints the keys to STDOUT. The user must then call GnuPG him/herself.

If available, \fB/usr/bin/dialog\fP is the default. If it is not
available but \fB/usr/bin/whiptail\fP is installed, then this is 
used instead. If nothing else works, we'll fall back to \fBplain\fP.

.IP "\fB\-\-importall\fP" 8
Don't ask the user which keys to import, but instead import all 
keys matching the \fIsearch-string\fP. If this is given no 
frontend is needed.

.IP "\fB\-\-honor\-http\-proxy\fP" 8
Similar to GnuP \fBkeylookup\fP will only honor the \fBhttp_proxy\fP
environment variable if this option is given. If it is not given
but your GnuPG options file includes it, then \fBkeylookup\fP will 
use it.

.IP "\fB\-\-help\fP" 8
Print a brief help message and exit successfully.



.SH ENVIRONMENT

.IP "HOME" 10 
Used to locate the default home directory. 

.IP "GNUPGHOME" 10 
If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg". 

.IP "GNUPGBIN" 10
If set used as gpg binary instead of "gpg".

.IP "http_proxy" 10 
Only honored when the option \-\-honor\-http\-proxy is set or
honor\-http\-proxy is set in GnuPG's config file.



.SH EXAMPLES

.IP "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).

.IP "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.

.IP "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.


.SH FILES

.IP "~/.gnupg/options"  10
GnuPG's options file where \fBkeylookup\fP will take the keyserver
and honor\-http\-proxy values from if it exists.


.SH "SEE ALSO"

\fBgpg\fP(1)

.SH BUGS

.LP
Please report bugs using the Debian bug tracking system at
https://bugs.debian.org/.


.SH AUTHORS

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