Re: [Sks-devel] pgp.mit.edu upgraded to SKS

[David Shaw]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Peter Pramberger wrote:

> Am Fr, 3.07.2009, 09:06, schrieb John Clizbe:
> > I've attached a tarball of my dev copy. It's Peter's 0.8.2 with a
> > couple patches to put an extracted key into own attachment and some
> > mime-type tweaks. Also included are additional translations for
> > Spanish and Catalan.
>
> Do you mind getting them included in the next release?
>
> But before we change the response format, we should know if there is
> any software out there which parses such responses?

GPG has the ability to request keys via the email interface, though  
this is not built in by default (it must be requested at ./configure  
time).  Even if the feature is included, GPG does not parse the  
response, and it is up to the person who receives the mail to extract  
the key from it and import it into GPG.  I don't know of any other  
programs that use the email interface.

I'm a bit surprised, actually, that people still use the email  
interface to fetch keys.  Does anyone have rough numbers on how often  
this happens?

David