Aruna aruna.evam@gmail.com 2013 Andre Klapper ak-47@gmx.net 2020 If you want to send an urgent encrypted message to someone, but do not have their key, you can retrieve their key from a remote key server. Retrieve remote keys

You can retrieve someone's public GnuPG key from the Internet and store it in Passwords and Keys.

To retrieve a remote key:

Press the menu button ☰ in the header bar.

Select Find remote keys….

Enter information about the key you wish to retrieve in the field provided. Details like key ID or the key owner's email address give more accurate results than the name of the key owner.

Press the Search button.

From the list of search results, select the key you want to import, and press the Download button on the right.

The imported key will be listed in the GnuPG keys keyring.

If you want more information about a key, before importing it, select it and press Enter or double-click it. This opens a new window that displays information like the key ID, key fingerprint, level of trust, owner's name, etc.