<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</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;">
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 09:24 +0600, Mustafa Qasim wrote:<br>> for gpg --send-keys E35924AA --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net it says<br>> gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) ...... [I am<br>> already using the --keyserver option ..]
<br><br>Most peculiar. Try rearranging the order on the command line (put the<br>key ID last). I just tried the opposite (to sending), fetching that<br>key. Obviously it'll fail to get *that* key, because it's not on the
<br>server, but I expect a gpg error message that makes sense.<br><br>This failed stupidly for me:<br><br>[tim@gonzales ~]$ gpg --recv-keys E35924AA --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net<br>gpg: "--keyserver" not a key ID: skipping
<br>gpg: "hkp://subkeys.pgp.net" not a key ID: skipping<br>gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver)<br>gpg: keyserver receive failed: bad URI<br><br>It didn't use the keyserver address as server address, but as the key to
<br>retreive.<br><br>This failed sensibly for me:<br><br>[tim@gonzales ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys E35924AA<br>gpg: requesting key E35924AA from hkp server <a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">subkeys.pgp.net
</a><br>gpgkeys: key E35924AA not found on keyserver<br>gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.<br>gpg: Total number processed: 0<br><br>It connected, but there wasn't *that* key on their server. If that key<br>was there, it would have worked.
<br><br>Have a go at retreiving a key from the server, to see if that side of<br>things works.<br><br>> m not using LDAP so it none of my business<br><br>You don't have to be, *they're* offering it as a communication protocol
<br>to use the keyserver. Give it a try.<br><br>> for mailto command it gaives the same error<br>> gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver)<br><br>I think you might have to send us a copy of your gpg.conf file, but
<br>remove anything private FIRST (also leave a comment so we can see where<br>you've done that).<br><br>--<br>(This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's<br> important to the thread.)<br><br>Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br>in answer to recieve it says --rec-keys is an invalid option...<br clear="all"> wait a minute....Do i need to update the gpg package on my system. it's kind of older version of Ubunto right now at this system from where i m trying to send my key... what is the latest package for gpg command...
<br><br>and what do u mean by removing private info from gpg.conf...... what part is considered as private for teh key holder?<br>-- <br>Mustafa Qasim<br>Lahore, Pakistan<br>Cell: 0321-6614972<br>URL: <a href="http://www.mustu.info">
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