Re: Kmail and gpg
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On Friday 04 October 2002 2:33 am, bruno randolf wrote:
> ok. sorry for my wrong post. i eventually took the time to read the gnu
> privacy handbook. what i suggested was nonsense and dangerous. and i'll
> never do something like that again, promised...
>
> what lead me to this stupid workaround was the fact, that kmail 1.4.3 (kde
> 3.0.3) refuses to encrypt to keys which are not signed (the old version
> allowed this). this behaviour might be right and conforming to the rfcs,
> but for casual, uneducated gpg users this is annoying and can lead to such
> stupid workarounds. of course it would be best if everybody just read the
> manual, but in my case, wouldn't it have been better if i just continued
> using the unsigned keys privately?
>
> anyway, thanks for pointing me to the infos, reading the gpg handbook was
> something i always had on my todo list... i'm glad that i've done it now...
>
> br1
If you really want to be able to encrypt emails to untrusted keys, then you
can use --lsign to locally sign the key. You need to check the docs but I
beleive that is the correct thing to do.
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David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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