File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr VALIDATE,  Prev: Dirmngr CACHECERT,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.6 Validate a certificate for debugging
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Validate a certificate using the certificate validation function used
internally by dirmngr.  This command is only useful for debugging.  To
get the actual certificate, this command immediately inquires it using

       S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT
       C: D 
       C: END

   Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request
as a binary blob.