Hello Roland, > Hansen's and DKG's blog are only partly helpful. For example my Linux > system seems to *not* have a ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf file at all (one > of those files recommended for editing). I.e. Nautilus cannot find it.
The usual case on Linux systems is that if a configuration file would otherwise be empty or equal to the default (the two can be entirely different things in general!), the configuration file simply does not exist. So instead of modifying ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf, *create* one and put a single line in it saying keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org/ I encountered some strange behaviour here: I invoked $ gpgconf --reload dirmngr afterwards (otherwise dirmngr will not reconsider its now changed configuration), and it *did not work*. It was still using the default. It did work after I rebooted (I was not in the mood to fiddle more with it and did the most heavy-handed thing that would work). Also, Enigmail doesn't seem to use this configuration at all and instead it is configured at Enigmail -> Preferences -> Keyserver I did verify using systemd's journal that the gpgconf --reload command reached its intended goal: dirmngr said "re-reading config". It just didn't have an effect for some odd reason. For people thinking about this: no, I don't use Tor for keyservers, it's not related to dirmngr refusing to change keyservers when on Tor. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>
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