On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:34:57 -0700, Kurt Fitzner said: > I have found that on the gpg command line, I can't specify a key to sign > with by using a user id unless that user id is the primary.
That is a problem with syncronizing secret and public key. The secret key should contains all the inforation of the public one plus the secret stuff. However it is hard to keep them in sync and so sometimes we don't get it right or even don't try to do. The effect is that whenever gpg searches for a key in the secring.gpg it won't find a key if the specification is for a example a user ID missing on the secret key. Please use a key ID or fingerprint, they are always valid. The actual solution is to never search by looking at the secring but to seacrh the pubring and then to check whether a candidate key has secret counterpart. This is the solution used for gpgsm and it works quite well. The required changes are pretty large, so I don't think it makes sense to add it to gpg 1.4 now. Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
