Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 16:51, Martin said: > It just seemed like a contradiction to me if a key for security > reasons should be downloaded from a website with an insufficient > certificate ;-) That is not really a matter. X.509 certificates as well as PGP keys are self-contained. All OpenPGP appl

RE: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Ming Kuang via Gnupg-users
On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 5:33 PM, Martin wrote: > Hello > > Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) > > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages giv

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Alex, Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 1:01:21 PM, you wrote: > There's not much you can do in those situations. There's not > really much in the way of an advantage compared to downloading from a > keyserver when searching by the key ID. It jus

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Juergen M. Bruckner via Gnupg-users
Hello, Apart from the use of keyserver, it is relatively easy and highly recommended to use WKD (Web Key Directory) for PGP-Keys. Another alternative is DNS OPENPGPKEY Record. regards Juergen Am 01.02.23 um 10:32 schrieb Martin: Hello Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) More and mo

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello Martin, Il 01 febbraio 2023 alle 10:32 Martin ha scritto: > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a link where the key could > be downloaded. Som

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Alex
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 13:01:21 +0100 Alex wrote: > There's not much you can do in those situations. There's not > really much in the way of an advantage compared to downloading from a > keyserver when searching by the key ID. Correction: It can help if there are collisions, software should not assu

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Alex
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:32:41 +0100 Martin wrote: > Hello > > Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) > > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a

Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Martin
Hello Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a link where the key could be downloaded. Sometimes this link has

Re: Unable to sign public key

2023-02-01 Thread Joel via Gnupg-users
Thank you for the response. I suspected it was something to do with the fact that my master certification key is on a USB stick because it worked when I used another non-yubikey PGP key. I will try to certify it via the master certification key. Thanks for the help. I appreciate it! Best regard

Re: Unable to sign public key

2023-02-01 Thread Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users
On 31 Jan 2023, at 19:52, Joel via Gnupg-users wrote: > > Hello! > > I am trying to sign a public key, but I get an error saying, `gpg: signing > failed: No secret key`. However, a normal signing on a file works perfectly > fine. I suspect it could be something because I have a yubikey and it