Re: Error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public key"

2015-12-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 22:47:19 + MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: Hello MFPA, >I suggested he delete my key and re-import it. He tells me he tried >that twice and it didn't help. It's a mystery to me. It's the same for me; A re-import of your key still results in an error(

Re: Error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public key"

2015-12-08 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 8 December 2015 at 8:26:23 AM, in , NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > I don't think that GnuPG frontend or gpg-agent doesn't > emit this error. > It could be libgcrypt which generates this error. It seems to be defined in Libgpg-error, which

Re: GPA - unsupported certificate

2015-12-08 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 08/12/15 13:16, Peter Lebbing wrote: > The problem > is that two software projects want opposite things; this would lead to > an arms race. What might be a better "fix", IMHO, would be to have GPA also warn about this, so people know what to do. Perhaps with another environment variable GPG_NO_

Re: GPA - unsupported certificate

2015-12-08 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:16:29 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Again, no. Lots of programs get vague problems. It's just that it used > to be that GNOME Keyring said "those problems are in GnuPG", whereas the > GnuPG project said "those problems are caused by GNOME Keyring breaking > our software". The

Re: GPA - unsupported certificate

2015-12-08 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 08/12/15 00:00, Dark Penguin wrote: > Erm... sorry, I am still not very good with understanding the bug > report flow; I would have checked the Debian GPA bug page before > writing here if I knew about its existence. ^_^' And yes, here it is, > my "Unsupported certificate" bug!.. No problem, it

GPA - import keys more easily?..

2015-12-08 Thread Dark Penguin
Is it possible to import public keys into GPA by "opening them with GPA" instead of using "Keys - Import"?.. That would sure be convenient, but simply opening an .asc key with GPA did not do that, and I couldn't find anything mentioning such thing in the man gpa. If this functionality is indee

Re: GPA - unsupported certificate

2015-12-08 Thread Dark Penguin
I am sure I've installed all updates and security-updates. I wanted to confirm the existence of another bug, so I've upgraded everything. Debian has gpg installed by default; I did not run it before installing GPA - naturally, I would expect GPA to run it itself if it needs it. Also, in Debian

Re: Error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public key"

2015-12-08 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
On 12/08/2015 08:51 AM, MFPA wrote: > What does the error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public > key" mean? > > One of the members of PGPNET reports getting that error > message when verifying the signatures on my signed and encrypted > messages to the group. He gets it for the signa