Re: Refreshing keyring via WKD

Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:31:30 +0100

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On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:29, Seth McDonald said:

> To my understanding, GnuPG has been encouraging the use of WKD over
> keyservers for the distribution of public keys.  I personally use WKD as

Right, except for organizational-wide LDAP keyservers.

> Though when it comes to updating my keyring via --refresh-keys, GnuPG
> seems to only be able to use keyservers to obtain the up-to-date keys.

Yes, this is an open task.  I think we have several tickets for that.
For example https://dev.gnupg.org/T698 .

Fortunately we know the origin of a key or user-id and are able to look
it up using the original source.  I would also like to see this
feature.  It is getting more important.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

-- 
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service.             - A. Einstein

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