Home / ubuntu / Questions / 408640
Accepted
d3rdon
Asked: 2014-01-22 02:30:03 +0800 CST

Tool to ask adressbook for pgp keys

  • 772

I would like to know if somebody knows a tool, where i can query my whole adress book in Thunderbird or Gmail, to ask, if there are PGP keys for somebody there. So i can just use the PGP key of People there. Or can I do this with Gnupg?

thunderbird

2 Answers

  1. I guess that feature lacks in your version of enigmail, the GnuPG client for Thunderbird. Therefore I suggest you export your contacts into a "comma separated" formatted file (thunderbird > addressbook > Tools > Export) and then pipe it through gpg in the command line. e.g.:

    awk 'BEGIN{FS=","};{print "gpg --search-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu " $5}' exported-file.csv | sh

    (Whereas FS="," defines the "field separator" and $5 the fifth field, which is the field containing the e-mail address of the respective user.)

    Otherwise try to upgrade your Enigmail add-on, as v1.6 seems to support that function:

    New function to search for the OpenPGP keys of all Address Book entries on a keyserver.

    In version 1.6 you can find the option in Thunderbird > OpenPGP > Keyserver > "Find keys for all contacts".

    Check here: Source (Section "Version Information")

    • 2
  2. Best Answer

    For Thunderbird 38.3 and Enigmail 1.8:

    1. Settings
    2. Enigmail
    3. Key Management
    4. Keyserver
    5. Find keys for all contacts
    6. Select all found keys
    7. OK
    • 1