Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] PGP signing
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:26:51
Message-Id: 1127474731.8956.4.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] PGP signing by Martin Schlemmer
1 On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:18 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2
3 Err, it seems I got confused with my mailing lists, and I ended up
4 replying to a very old mail :D Anyhow, below might still help anybody
5 that ran into the same issue.
6
7 > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:20 -0500, James Dio wrote:
8 > > Hi,
9 > >
10 > > I use evolution (and sign out going emails with PGP) however I notice
11 > > every single incoming mail that has been PGP signed says invalid
12 > > signature, is this normal? how would I fix such a thing?
13 >
14 > All mine (except my own) says:
15 >
16 > 'Valid signature, cannot verify sender'
17 >
18 > I however had the same issue as you, but that was due to gnupg-1.4.2
19 > being much stricter than 1.4.1 and earlier, and it did not parse the db
20 > due to this. I ended up downgrading to 1.4.1, and deleting all but my
21 > own sigs to make sure I do not have any that 1.4.2 will flag invalid.
22 > You can check with:
23 >
24 > $ gpg --check-trustdb
25 >
26 > and if it errors, you have the same issue.
27 >
28 >
29 > Regards,
30
31 --
32 Martin Schlemmer

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