March 17, 2025

Retrieve the GPG key pair of someone given their GPG fingerprint

When you receive a GPG signed email from someone, you can fetch their public key by running:

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 --recv-keys [fingerprint]

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GPG fingerprint: 2E0F FB60 7FEF 11D0 FB45 4DDC E979 E52A 7036 7A88