On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:21:35PM +0100, Aron Stansvik wrote: > > > On the other hand, I finds signed messages annoying. I don't have > > > any of senders' public keys -- this is an international forum, after > > > all -- so pgp verification always fails. > > > > Well, you can set GPG to automatically fetch keys, or you can manually > > fetch keys you care about (which is what I do, with a handy little script). > > How does this actually work? I have my pgp_getkeys_command set to: > > gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys %r That looks about right. You may wanna just DL the getkeys script (that I got a while ago from somebody else on this list) from me [1]. It allows you to search multiple keyservers. > Should this work, provided that the sender of the signed email I'm > reading has its public key exported to this server (or any other? how > does HKP work?). I dunno ... I never really got interested in the mechanics of how/why. > Verification of your signature fails on my setup, as indeed it should, since I've never posted my key to a keyserver, and nobody else has posted my key to a major keyserver > how can I tell Mutt to > download your public key from the URL specified by the X-GPG-Key-Direct-Link > header and import it into my keyring? I've looked through the online > manual, but can't see anything about these headers, maybe I'm missing > something. I just DL the key, save it to a file, and then --import it. > PS. Could you successfully verify the signature of this email? I have > exported my public key to hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net. DS. Yup - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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