<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mikkel L. Ellertson</b> <<a href="mailto:mikkel@infinity-ltd.com">mikkel@infinity-ltd.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mustafa Qasim wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 7/15/07, *Mikkel L. Ellertson* <<a href="mailto:mikkel@infinity-ltd.com">mikkel@infinity-ltd.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mikkel@infinity-ltd.com">mikkel@infinity-ltd.com
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Mustafa Qasim wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Hello!<br>> > a) Sorry for top posting. I didn't noticed that but I shall in future.<br>> > b) I replace the .ssh and .gnupg directory with the backup i took
<br>> after<br>> > just creating the keys and now keys are working well on my system but<br>> > still I can't send it to the key server. Is the key server down? or<br>> > please guide me how to locally extract the ASCII from my key and
<br>> > actually which one is the main key file holding the ASCII among the 5<br>> > files in the .gnupg directory?<br>> ><br>> You do not need to know what file the key is in. As long as it is in
<br>> your keyring, gpg can extract it. This is what the --extract option<br>> does. The --armor option give you the output in ASCII instead of<br>> binary. The --outfile option will send the output to a file instead
<br>> of displaying it in the terminal. (The defaults sends it to the<br>> standard output.)<br>><br>> If the name you used when creating the key was Mustafa, the you<br>> would use:<br>>
<br>> gpg --export --armor --outfile key.txt Mustafa<br>><br>> This would create a file called key.txt in the current directory<br>> with the ASCII representation of your public key. You can then open
<br>> key.txt in a work processor or text editor if you want.<br>><br>> As far as your problems with the key server, you can try using a<br>> different one and see if that helps. Try using<br>>
<a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de</a><br>> <<a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de</a>> or <a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">
subkeys.pgp.net</a><br>> <<a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">http://subkeys.pgp.net</a>> and see if that<br>> works better.<br>><br>> Mikkel<br>><br>> Sir, thanks for the 2 further key server links but both didn't work :((
<br>> ....<br>><br>> For the first server <a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de</a><br>> <<a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
</a>> it says that<br>> gpg: can not connect to "<a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de</a><br>> <<a href="http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de">http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
</a>>" : No such file or directory<br>><br>That is strange. What it should do is pick a keyserver at random to<br>connect to. It is designed to spread the load among keyservers.<br><br>> and for the other <a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">
subkeys.pgp.net</a> <<a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">http://subkeys.pgp.net</a>> . it reacts<br>> like the <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu">pgp.mit.edu</a> <<a href="http://pgp.mit.edu">http://pgp.mit.edu</a>> ... gives connection time out
<br>> error after 1 minute ..<br>><br>How are you connecting to the Internet? Do you go through a proxy?<br>If so, you will need the "--keyserver-options http-proxy=value"<br>option or set http_proxy in your shell.
<br><br>> Y all this is happening with me :( ..... Y i can't submit the key to the<br>> key server...<br>><br>It sounds like something is blocking the connection from gpg to the<br>keyserver.<br><br>Were you able to generate the ASCII file of your key?
<br><br>Mikkel<br>--<br><br> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,<br>for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!<br><br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Yes! I am behind a proxy but all other work goes fine. I didn't need to set proxy path for any other work. but Ok our proxy is
<a href="http://10.0.0.1">10.0.0.1</a> ... now what is the syntax to declare proxy?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mustafa Qasim<br>Lahore, Pakistan<br>Cell: 0321-6614972<br>URL: <a href="http://www.mustu.info">http://www.mustu.info
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