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openpgpkey: Create and verify RFC-TBD OPENPGPKEY DNS records

Command to display openpgpkey manual in Linux: $ man 1 openpgpkey

NAME

openpgpkey - Create and verify RFC-TBD OPENPGPKEY DNS records

SYNTAX

openpgpkey [--fetch | --verify] [--insecure] [--resolv.conf /PATH/TO/RESOLV.CONF] user [at] domain

openpgpkey [--create] [--insecure] [--resolv.conf /PATH/TO/RESOLV.CONF] [--output {rfc,generic,both}] [--uid <uid>] [--keyid <keyid>] user [at] domain

DESCRIPTION

openpgpkey generates RFC-TBD OPENPGPKEY DNS records. To generate these records for older nameserver implementations that do not yet support the OPENPGPKEY record, specify --output generic to output the openpgpkey data in Generic Record (RFC-3597) format. Records are generated by taking all keys with the specified email address associated with it from the user's local GnuPG keychain.

Verification of OPENPGPKEY records is done by comparing the keyid and fingerprint of the OPENPGPKEY obtained from DNS with the version in the local GnuPG keychain.

OPTIONS

--fetch

: Fetch an OPENPGPKEY public key record from DNS

--create

: Create an OPENPGPKEY DNS record

--verify

: Verify a public key from the local GPG keyring with the OPENPGPKEY DNS record

--resolvconf FILE

: Specify a custom resolv.conf file (default: /etc/resolv.conf)

--output rfc | generic | both

: Output format of OPENPGPKEY record. "OPENPGPKEY" for rfc, "TYPE61" for generic (default: generic)

If neither create or verify is specified, create is used.

REQUIREMENTS

openpgpkey requires the following python libraries: unbound, gnupg and argparse. It also requires gnupg which provides the gpg command.

BUGS

none known

EXAMPLES

typical usage:

openpgpkey --fetch paul [at] nohats.ca > paul.pubkey

openpgpkey --verify paul [at] nohats.ca

openpgpkey --create paul [at] nohats.ca

AUTHORS

Paul Wouters <pwouters [at] redhat.com>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See <m[blue]http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txtm[]>.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License (file COPYING in the distribution) for more details.