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Re: signing gpg key with old key ...



on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:01:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:43:37PM -0900, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:01:35PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> > > Question for the gallery:  Is there a good method for checking a local
> > > keyring against a public keyserver to find updates and/or additional
> > > signatures.  The best I can do right now is list the key IDs I've got
> > > and do a 'gpg --recv-keys' to update this list.
> > 
> > i don't know of a quick way no.  there should be something like gpg
> > --refresh-keyring or something.
> 
> I ran my own little thang:
> 
>     gpg --list-keys | grep '^pub' | awk '{ print $2}' |
> 	sed -e '/^.*\//s///' > keylist
>     gpg --recv-keys `cat keylist``
> 
> ...which did the job.  I'll time a run -- 496 keys I've got now.  Takes
> a while at 56K.  And there were a number of updates -- signatures and
> the like.

FWIW:  Elapsed time:  72 minutes, @ 56K.

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