Extract Keys

Index Options: Show OpenPGP fingerprints Show full-key hashes Only return exact matches Machine readable

Index type: Get regular index of matching keys Get verbose index of matching keys retrieve ascii-armored keys retrieve keys by full-key hash

Type the text you want to search for in the Search String box. If you want to look up a key by its hexadecimal KeyID, you have to prefix the ID with 0x
Select either the Index or Verbose Index check box. The Verbose option will display signatures on keys .
Press the Submit button.

The server will return a list of keys matching the search text. The page will have links for every KeyID, and every bracket-delimited identifier (i.e. ). Clicking on the hypertext link will display an ASCII-armored version of the public key.

Extraction caveats

The search engine is not the same as that used by the pgp program. It will return information for all keys which contain all the words in the search string. A �word� in this context is a string of consecutive alphabetic characters. For example, in the string user@example.com, the words are user, example, and com.

This means that some keys you might not expect will be returned. If there was a key in the database for Marc Edu , this would be returned for by the above query. If you do not want to see all these extra matches, you can select "Only return exact matches", and only keys containing the specified search string will be returned..

This algorithm does not match partial words in any case. So, if you are used to specifying only part of a long name, this will no longer work..

Currently, hypertext links are only generated for the KeyID and for text found between matching brackets. (It is a common convention to put your e-mail address inside brackets somewhere in the key ID string.).