[db-wg] Suggestion for a way to retrieve filtered objects

> > Do you need to specify any special options to whois to get the auth:
> > lines from the maintainer object?  We have a maintainer object where
> > I'm pretty sure that all the auth: lines are of PGP- style, but whois
> > is still not displaying those lines.  Trying to use
> >
> >   https://apps.db.ripe.net/webupdates/search.html
> >
> > it asks me for "password".  What password?!?  No, I have not used
> > webupdates before, and have no particular desire to start using it
> > now.  Is there no way around this?
> >
> > I really, Really, dislike this change in behaviour, since we are now
> > effectively cut off from updating our maintainer object -- we keep no
> > local copy of the object, and want to use the one stored in the RIPE
> > database as the authoritative data source.  Now we can't do that.
> > Argh!

Ditto.  The one time I tried to use webupdates (3 days ago), I hit a 
bug.  See the comments at the end:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/securing-md5-hashes-in-the-ripe-database

-Hank