On 11/25/2016 4:02 AM, Stephan Beck wrote: > 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].
No problem. When I try to decrypt your message, I get the follow from GPG:
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Anthony Papillion <anth...@cajuntechie.org>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x002919C90AF4A3BC, created 2016-10-12
(subkey on main key ID 0xCC9D1E072AC97369)
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> 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
After some testing, I found out that the keys were, in some/most cases
actually getting refreshed. I'm going to try with the new options and
see what information I can coax out of GPG.
Anthony
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