On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 09:46:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 0, rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Try it on this message.
>
> the trouble that I am having is that, when I use ^K, it fires up gpg, but
> it does not give you a chance to see the output, therefore the only way to
> check if the key has been added is by invoking gpg wiht --list-public-keys
>
> For example, when I tried it on this message, as you suggest :), it did not
> add the key. It found it alright, but I could not see what the error was,
> after saving this to a file, and invoking gpg manually, I find:
>
>
> gpg: key 6C620FC9: unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key 6C620FC9: no valid user ids
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
>
> and hence this wont have been added. It would be useful if the output was
> caught somewhere, or an opitional pause was added, is this the case ?
Can't help with the pause, but agree it would be useful. When error
messages go to the null device, it's a PITA.
It looks as if gpg doesn't support RSA, which would explain the the
initial error message. The key is self-signed, so that shouldn't
be the problem.
-rex
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