Update: I actually tried
gpg2 --keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net --refresh-keys 4F765425380A9BBA5F0E0892CC9D1E072AC97369 --no-emit-version --display-charset utf-8 --keyserver-options ca-cert-file=~/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem use-temp-files keep-temp-files verbose as well (with variations), the use-temp-files=/tmp/tempfile.txt is I used in my example below is plainly wrong. Cheers Stephan Stephan Beck: > Hi Anthony, > > Stephan Beck: >> >> >> Anthony Papillion: >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> When I run >>> >>> gpg2 --keyserver <my-keyserver> --refresh-keys > >>> >>> Can someone tell me what this error means and how can I fix it? >> >> Which gpg2 version are you running? 2.0x or 2.1x? > > sorry for the delay in getting back to you on-list. > [Could you please send me the error output you get when decrypting the > encrypted message I sent you yesterday, telling you that I had problems > in checking keyserver's connection as well, it's just that I'm eager to > know and I want to exclude key compromise]. > > > In order to get the details of the communication of keyserver helper > programs with the keyserver you should use the --use-temp-files and > --keep-temp-files --keyserver options. > > For example, I tried (a hundred times, with variations) to refresh your > key attempting to log keyserver<->helpers communication to check it > myself before giving advice > > gpg2 --keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net --refresh-keys > 4F765425380A9BBA5F0E0892CC9D1E072AC97369 --no-emit-version > --display-charset utf-8 --keyserver-options > ca-cert-file=~/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem,use-temp-files=/tmp/tempfile.txt,keep-temp-files,verbose > --debug-level 2 > > But tempin.txt tempout.txt are nowhere. > I made a search in the gnupg's pipermail list archive and I consistently > found surely authoritative indication of David Shaw > that adding > --debug 1024 --keyserver-options "use-temp-files keep-temp-files" > > do result in tempin.txt tempout.txt being logged somewhere. > > I successfully generated those files in the past when checking > communication with keyservers, but I haven't wrote it down and I can't > integrate David Shaw's instructions into the above mentioned > command-line I used. > I'm giving up on this now, eager to hear once for all times HOW to > successfully create them. > > Cheers > > Stephan > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
