How to Install Public Keys with GPG

Question

I am installing vagrant and I am trying to follow their instructions. My next step is to install their PGP public key. I'm on Windows so it's not as easy as just --recv-keys, I need to place this code somewhere:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1

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=LYpS
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Does anyone know where I should? I'm using GnuPG - not any of the bloatware in Gpg4win.

Answer 1

If you already successfully installed GnuPG -- no matter whether you built the code on your own, only installed the small command line binary or a full distribution including a graphical user interface and client applications like GPG4Win -- run gpg --import to import keys into the GnuPG internal keyring. Store the public key informaiton into a file, which you then import (there are other ways, but let's stick to the one canonical method to import keys). You can call it in different ways on the command line, either by passing a file name to import (first example), or by piping the file's contents into GnuPG (second example):

gpg --import publickey.gpg
gpg --import < publickey.gpg

In the end, graphical user interfaces do the exactly same thing and run GnuPG behind the scenes.

If you know a key ID or fingerprint, you can also use gpg --recv-keys [keyid] to fetch a key, for example

gpg --recv-keys a4ff2279

If there is no key server defined in your GnuPG configuration file, you can also pass one on the command line:

gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys a4ff2279

In the end, --recv-keys uses HTTP (or other protocols) to receive key information from the key servers, and then --imports this data.