Alejandro Erickson wrote the following on 10/18/09 2:37 PM: > Hi, > I'm a little confused about the verification/installation process. > > I have gpg 1.4.7 which came with Mac OS X - assume I trust it.
Hi Alejandro, I am a little confused by your assertion that "gpg 1.4.7 came with Mac OS X". GnuPG software is not included in any way in the MacOS X releases. One has to to actually download the software and either compile it, or download a binary installer, and install it. > I want > to verify and install gpg 2. I download gnupg-2.0.13.tar.bz2 and > gnupg-2.0.13.tar.bz2.sig and run > $ gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.13.tar.bz2.sig > but it tells me public key not found. Not found in your public keyring, or not found at all? In my Terminal: $ gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.13.tar.bz2.sig gnupg-2.0.13.tar.bz2 gpg: Signature made Fri Sep 4 12:35:03 2009 EDT using RSA key ID 1CE0C630 gpg: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig) <dd...@gnu.org>" > I checked on the gnupg website > and found the username associated with 1CE0C630 (the public key for > the signature on gpg 2). I can get gpg to list this public key with > $ gpg --search-keys dd...@gnu.org > but I can't seem to find a command to import it or to search the > keyserver when verifying. I can find the key online and copy/paste > into a file and import the key to gpg but I imagine this is automated. When the key you are searching for, with the command search-key and not recv-key is found in a keyserver (following your CLI in Terminal), the Terminal output will display the key information and offer the option to import it. Once you have imported it into your public keyring, you will be able to verify the signature. When using the command recv-key, the key (if found on the keyserver you are using) will be automatically downloaded and imported into your public keyring. By the way, if you intend to compile gnupg-2.0.13 in MacOSX, you will not, I'm afraid, succeed to have a working gpg2 2.0.13 unless you also download and install the libraries required by gpg2. Even then, the resulting installation will not "work" because you need to install gpg-agent and pinentry that are compatible with MacOSX environment. A binary installer for MacGPG2 2.0.12 is available for download from the MacGPG2 project at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg2/develop>. I believe a similar installer for MacGPG2 2.0.13 is in the making by Ben Donnachie, manager and maintainer of the project. MacGPG2 is a project separate from MacGPG <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> Best regards, Charly 0xA57A8EFA MacOSX 10.6.1 32bits MacBook5,1 - Gnupg 1.4.10 - MacGPG2 2.0.12 - Running Enigmail version 0.97a (20091021-0809) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
