Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Digital signatures

[Mick]

On Friday 20 Jan 2012 07:57:38 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:22:50PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On 1/19/2012 11:32 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
> > > On 1/19/2012 11:57 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53:07AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> > >>> While on this subject, sort of.  Who on here as their email set up to
> > >>> encrypt and decrypt emails?  I want to test some things OFF LIST.
> > >>
> > >> Well, if you had signed your mail, then I could write you encrypted.
> > >> :)
> > >
> > > This is a test.  Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and expired
> > > key to sign my messages, lately.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Looks good to me, at least based on what's presently available in the
> > keyservers.
>
> Hm... I seem to be too dumb. Mutt tells me that the msg is signed, but
> doesn't tell me by whom (I know that I need to have the public key in my
> keyring to see a name, but it doesn't even tell me the key ID). Saving the
> whole mail to a file and verifying the sig doesn't work either, that too
> is obvious because 1) only the text is signed, not the rest of the mail
> and b) the signed stuff and the sig need to be two different files for gpg
> --verify to work. So I saved the signature.asc and the text separately.
> Now verification works and I see a key ID, but using gpg --search <key ID>
> doesn't find the given key on the server.
>
> GPGing was much easier when KMail still worked. ^^

Yes, I dabbled with mutt but I found the gpg and s/mime rather cranky compared 
with the super-smooth integration of kmail and kgpg.  Unfortunately with 
kdepim-4.7 the whole kmail experience has been a rather unpleasant one for me.  
:(
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Regards,
Mick