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Re: GPG and Signing



On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:11:06 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:26:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > > > What are the advantages to having it?
> > > 
> > > Using a web of trust, you can validate whether the entity that
> > > claims to have sent the email actually sent the email.
> > 
> > Which makes me wonder, how is anyone to establish such a web of trust
> > in this community?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Andrei
> > P.S. I just setup Claws-Mail to use signing a few days ago. This thread
> > looks like a good opportunity to start using it here.
> >
> 
> I got this for your mail:
> 
> [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun 01 Apr 2007 08:09:36 AM EDT)
> --]
> gpg: Signature made Sun 01 Apr 2007 04:27:11 AM EDT using DSA key ID
> 70859BD9
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> [-- End of PGP output --]
> 
> I can't figure out how to set it up. The articles mention only talk
> about PGP, not GPG. 

Make sure you have something like this in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

(You can use another keyserver, of course. All the "standard" keyservers
 synchronize their key data with each other regularly.)

-- 
Regards,
          Florian



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