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Synopsis

The plan is to implement at least the get by key id or fingerprint operation of the HKP protocol in Google App Engine. While implementing this, I came across the Web Key Directory draft, so the ability to retrieve keys via this scheme was also added. Note that this draft standard seems to be a moving target, and this code was written against draft 5.

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Motivation

I decided to make this when I saw that setting the Preferred key server URL in my public key in gpg to an absolute URL pointing to my key file did not work, and instead resulted in GPG trying to speak HKP to the server specified in the URL.

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