On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:36:31PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed pgp, set up my publick key, and got rid of the majotrity > of heading pgp referencing msgs. the only one left is: > > 1. pgp: Signature made Monday... > Which is a confirmation of the other's signature, I understand that. > 2. gpg: Can't check sigature: public key not found > > Now, is the latter because I'm not logged on to the net and it can't > check a public keysite? Or because I haven't the senders public key?
Yes and Yes. If you -had- the sender's public key, it wouldn't need to check a public key server. > Is it expected therefore when I've logged off my ISP? If not, how do I > get rid of it. Import a copy of the sender's key you your keyring. > Q: The servers I was given doesn't work. is there an url for a > keyserver? For integrating into GPG (ie, so it will auto query)? Add the following to ~/.gnupg/options: # GnuPG can import a key from a HKP keyerver if one is missing # for certain operations. Is you set this option to a keyserver # you will be asked in such a case whether GnuPG should try to # import the key from that server (server do syncronize with each # others and DNS Round-Robin may give you a random server each time). # Use "host -l pgp.net | grep www" to figure out a keyserver. keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Note that http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/ has a web-based interface, so you can look up a public key, save it to a file and use 'gpg --import-key < file' to import it. [And note that the '--import-key' isn't really needed... gnupg is smart enough to see that it's a key and figure out the only thing you really can do with a key is import it....] -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;
