-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to set up S/MIME in Kmail. When I select the 'S/MIME > Singing Certificate' field in Kmail/Identities/Cryptography/ it fails > to find my key. > > The error pop up says: > ============================= > Key Listing Failed - Kmail > An error occurred while fetching the keys from the backend: > General error > ============================= > > I click OK and: > ============================= > No backends found for listing keys. Check your installation. > ============================= > > I generated my key pair following the Gentoo Gnupg user guide and had > no problem entering the key in 'OpenPGP Signing Key' and 'OpenPGP > encruption key', under the same Kmail crypto configuration tab. > > Are there any additional steps I need to undertake to make Kmail work > with S/MIME? Does it need different keys? What backend is the above > error referring to? My understanding is that these are different key types. S/MIME is typically used for PKI type certificates, not GnuPG certificates. You would need a DoD or Verisign (or some other publicly recognized CA) certificate to use S/MIME. Depending on what you're trying to do, GnuPG should be sufficient.
- -- gentux echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEi0mMTPA54hjTSp4RAsN3AKDDCthjIr2WeDP82i1jdG4BdR20vACghKN3 eOIC+DtaPrn/b1/KeweTYX0= =WCT7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
