verifying signatures
Igor Gueths
igueths at lava-net.com
Fri Mar 26 13:37:51 EST 2004
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Hi Greg. Thanks for the reply...I got everything working. Btw in my
particular version of gpg (1.2.4), the file is called gpg.conf.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:19:54PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> It sounds to me like you don't have your gpg set to automatically grab
> keys from a key server. To set that up, edit your $HOME/.gnupg/options
> file. First, you need to define which keyserver to use. The line that
> I have reads:
>
> keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net
>
> Next, you need to tell gpg to automatically grab keys it doesn't
> already have from the keyserver. The line I have is:
>
> keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-disabled include-revoked
>
> This tells gpg to automatically get keys from the server, including
> those that have been disabled and revoked.
>
> As for the command I use to verify signatures, in my .muttrc I have:
>
> set pgp_verify_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --verify
> %s %f"
>
> I also have:
>
> set pgp_verify_key_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --fingerprint
> --check-sigs %r"
>
> The command that imports keys is:
>
> set pgp_import_command="gpg --no-verbose --import -v %f"
>
> Don't ask me exactly what these do, because I simply cut and pasted
> them from the mut with gpg howto, and haven't bothered examining them
> in great detail, since they do what they're supposed to.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:31:18PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > This is the PGP output that I get: PGP output follows (current time: Fri
> > Mar 26 12:27:32 2004) --]
> > gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 26 12:16:10 2004 EST using DSA key ID
> > 79725320
> > gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> >
> > [-- End of PGP output
> >
> > This makes sense, since I don't have your public key imported into my
> > keyring. However it should be able to verify your signature, and of
> > course mine since I've exported it to wwwkeys.pgp.net. What is the
> > command sequence you use?
>
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