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convert the key in MIME encoded form in python

Answer 1

A:

By adding a print data statement, I see...:

'Error handling request\r\n
Error handling request
Error handling request: No keys found\r\n'

Kind of hard to make ANYthing out of THAT string, wouldn't you say...?-)

What do YOU see when you add a print data statement...?

Alex Martelli 2009-09-14 04:49:30

this will definately retrieve the key when u hv the corrrect search parameter.

2009-09-14 05:14:24

and problem is not in getting the key instead in conversion mechanism

2009-09-14 05:31:29

Answer 2

A:

For the encoding in the URL you give, see the-encoding-mechanism. It is a public PGP key encoded using Radix64 (OpenPGP's variant of Base64) -- "armored".

For a few ideas on dealing with PGP, see how-to-do-pgp-in-python-generate-keys-encrypt-decrypt.

Hopefully, the PGP module in M2Crypto will help.

gimel 2009-09-14 05:56:18

Answer 3

A:

For a start, when you do use a valid search value ("jay" returns an error stating "too many values"), you will receive an HTML page from which you need to extract the actual key. Trying a search value of "jaysh" I get the following response:

>>> print urllib.urlopen('http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&amp;search=jaysh').read()
<html><head><title>Public Key Server -- Get ``jaysh ''</title></head>
<body><h1>Public Key Server -- Get ``jaysh ''</h1>
<pre>
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.1.1
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=tvYU
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
</pre>
</body></html>

So you need to look only at the key which is wrapped by the <pre> HTML tags.

By the way, there are other issues that you will need to contend with such as multiple keys being returned because you are searching by "name", when you should be searching by keyID. For example, keyID 0x58E9390DAF8C5BF3 will return the public key for jaysh and only jaysh and the corresponsing URL is http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x58E9390DAF8C5BF3.

This was mostly covered in my earlier answer to this question which I presume you also asked.

mhawke 2009-09-14 06:02:19

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