proposal: signature usage for offline mainkeys (secure policy documents)

2012-07-15 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, until yesterday I considered the capabilities (signing, decrypting) of an offline mainkey irrelevant as it is usually never used for these operations and thus recommended to create offline mainkeys without explicit capabilities. This attitude has just changed. I would like to tell you wh

Re: key search does not work with gpg2

2012-07-15 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 15.07.2012, 15:37:16 schrieb Klaus Layer: > gpg2 --keyserver hkp://109.230.243.87 --search-key B973BA7B gpg2 --keyserver hkp://109.230.243.87 --search-key 0xB973BA7B works. > Known error, or am I doing something wrong? I can't tell you whether that's a bug or a feature. Hauke -- PGP:

Re: key search does not work with gpg2

2012-07-15 Thread Klaus Layer
Am Sonntag, 15. Juli 2012, 15:47:36 schrieb Hauke Laging: > Am So 15.07.2012, 15:37:16 schrieb Klaus Layer: > > gpg2 --keyserver hkp://109.230.243.87 --search-key B973BA7B > > gpg2 --keyserver hkp://109.230.243.87 --search-key 0xB973BA7B > > works. > > > Known error, or am I doing something wron

Re: key search does not work with gpg2

2012-07-15 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 2012-07-15 15:37, Klaus Layer wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing a search for key B973BA7B with gpg: > ... > > Known error, or am I doing something wrong? > Hi Klaus, Since you know the key ID I'd recommend trying two things; (i) replace --search-key with --recv-key ; gpg2 --keyserver 109.230

key search does not work with gpg2

2012-07-15 Thread Klaus Layer
Hi, I am doing a search for key B973BA7B with gpg: gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.11 gpg --keyserver hkp://109.230.243.87 --search-key B973BA7B gpg: searching for "B973BA7B" from hkp server 109.230.243.87 (1) NetBank AG 1024 bit DSA key B973BA7B, created: 2000-09-27 The key is found. Same