On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:00:09AM +0000, Matt Richards wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having an issue with GnuPG, I currently use it with mutt and everything > was ok but now when I view an email that has sign > ed data and I dont have the key of the person that signed the email, mutt > hangs. > > This appears to be due to gnupg attempting to request the key via a keyserver > and not having much success. > > The keyserver I was using with no problems is hkp://subkeys.pgp.net and since > then I have tried a number of keyservers including mit's without much > success, I did find one keyserver that i could connect to (LDAP based i > think) but there didn't appear to be many keys avaliable. > > I'm not behind any proxy servers or anything like that. > > Does anybody know what might be going on? or are the keyservers just down?
subkeys.pgp.net is a virtual keyserver. The name actually points to multiple different servers run by different people. If any of these servers are down, keyserver requests can block for a while until there is a timeout and GPG gives up. You can change the timeout value (it defaults to 2 minutes) with: keyserver-options timeout=xxxxx Where xxxxx is the number of seconds to wait for the keyserver. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
