You should not use this utility! The GNU Privacy Guard (gpg(1)) is capable of retrieving PGP keys from Protonmail using WKD [0]. This also works for some other addresses. Here’s how to do it, using my e-mail address as an example: $ gpg --auto-key-locate wkd --locate-keys emma@tebibyte.media And to import it: $ gpg --auto-key-locate wkd --auto-key-import --locate-keys emma@tebibyte.media [0] https://proton.me/blog/security-updates-2019