hkp-client

hkp-client

Use this for searching and fetching keys from public-key servers implementing the OpenPGP HTTP Keyserver Protocol (HKP).

Search

var hkp = require('hkp-client');
var keyserver = 'http://pgp.mit.edu:11371';
var search = '[e-mail]';
hkp.search(keyserver, search, function(err, results) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log(results);
});

[ 
  {
    uid: { 
      user: 'Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>',
       time: '1316554898' 
    },
    pub: { 
      keyId: '00411886', 
      bits: '2048', 
      time: '1316554898'
    }
  }
]

Fetch

var hkp = require('hkp-client');
var keyserver = 'http://pgp.mit.edu:11371';
var keyId = '00411886';
hkp.fetch(keyserver, keyId, function(err, pubKey) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log(pubKey);
});

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.1.0

...
...

-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----