-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 May 2001 4:35 am, Rob Walker wrote: > Can gpg be pointed at a keyserver to automatically download the public > keys?
Near the end of my .gnupg/options: # GnuPG can import a key from a HKP keyerver if one is missing # for sercain 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 KMail will use an option so you don't get prompted, it just downloads the key if necessary when you view a signed message. Unfortunately if there's a network problem (or just a slow network) KMail will hang waiting for gpg waiting for an inaccessible server. Alt-F2, killall gpg will get KMail to snap out of it. KMail will then say "warning: bad signature from:" or something like that, but in fact you don't know whether the signature is ok. If this bug (and I consider it a bug) is still not fixed in CVS, then I'll do it if I have time. IMHO when checking a signature it should clear the message view before starting to avoid confusion, and use the progress bar and abort button. - -- Chris Boyle - Winchester College - http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/ For my PGP key visit: http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/finger.php?q=chrisb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7D3aID834tscfhTwRAjLeAJoCnJ0myELGlaDcGOeb9sxofXlZ9wCfcGMu zBepXUj6GWd1V8Q/LluFCV0= =Jnff -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----