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@@ -356,13 +356,27 @@ Note that the @command{dirmngr} can in addition be configured with a
default list of LDAP servers to be used after those configured with
this option. The syntax of @var{string} is:
-@sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn}
+@sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn:flags}
+
+The only defined flag is @code{ldaps} to specify that a TLS
+connections shall be used. Flags are comma delimited; unknown flags
+are ignored.
Note that all parts of that string are expected to be UTF-8 encoded.
This may lead to problems if the @sc{password} has originally been
-encoded as Latin-1; in such a case better configure this LDAP server
+encoded as Latin-1; in such a case better configure tsuch an LDAP server
using the global configuration of @command{dirmngr}.
+Here is an example which uses the default port, no username, no
+password, and requests a TLS connection:
+
+@c man:.RS
+@example
+--keyserver ldap.pca.dfn.de::::o=DFN-Verein,c=DE:ldaps
+@end example
+@c man:.RE
+
+
@item --policy-file @var{filename}
@opindex policy-file
Change the default name of the policy file to @var{filename}. The