On 2021-09-01 at 13:50 +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 1. September 2021 07:55:21 CEST raf via Gnupg-users wrote: > > Why is the --auto-key-locate only for encrypting (says > > the gpg(1) manpage)? Wouldn't it also be useful when > > receiving emails and verifying signatures? > > --auto-key-locate looks up keys by email address. It makes no sense when > verifying signatures because in this case you already know the key id the > signature was made with, so that there's no reason to look up the key by > email > address (which is ambiguous).
If you're looking up purely by key id, then you need a working global key-lookup facility. It doesn't federate. If you look up by email address, then federation becomes available and efforts such as WKD pay off. -Phil _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
