Re: I'm confused about GPG, and it's confused about me

2017-01-29 Thread Reid Vail
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:16:15 +0100 Peter Lebbing wrote: > Whoops, left out part of my answer. > > On 27/01/17 03:25, Reid Vail wrote: > > When I > > used Seahorse and tried to create a new keypair it never seemed to > > complete. I know > > wants random input

error in GPA

2017-01-26 Thread Reid Vail
Hello GNuPG team - was trying to create a key pair in GPA and got the following error "The GPGME library returned and unexpected error at gpagenkeyadvop.c199. The error was: General Error" "This is either an installation problem or a bug in GPA. GPA will now try to recover from this error. "

Re: I'm confused about GPG, and it's confused about me

2017-01-26 Thread Reid Vail
d I could manually use that new key to sign the public key was trying send to, which is the goal. I executed the following to show the public key I was trying to sign: rsv2@rsv2-Serval-Pro ~ $ gpg --with-fingerprint rsv869@runbox.com_public.asc pub 2048R/26F66FEB 2016-11-09 Reid Vail Key f

Re: I'm confused about GPG, and it's confused about me

2017-01-21 Thread Reid Vail
t box is selected but when I try to sign it this fails, saying "no usable keys" I'm confused on my next trouble-shooting steps. Any advice is appreciated. TIA, rsv869 On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:18:32 -0500 ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > > On 1/17/2017 at 4:14 PM, "Re

I'm confused about GPG, and it's confused about me

2017-01-17 Thread Reid Vail
e how to troubleshoot my issue. Pointers welcome. Reid -- rsv2@rsv2-Serval-Pro ~ $ gpg --fingerprint rsv...@runbox.com pub 2048R/26F66FEB 2016-11-09 Key fingerprint = 3A74 A1DB 2C79 6657 D14B A6B8 3EDE 6A32 26F6 6FEB uid Reid V

need advice - how to isolate gnupg trouble

2015-10-05 Thread Reid Vail
Hello group - I have two laptops running Linux Mint 17.2 and GPG 1.4.16 and Claws-Mail. Both machines have the same Claws-mail plug-ins installed. However, on my primary machine I can't get PKI encryption to work and on my secondary it worked the first time. below is the message Claws kicks out,

asking for advice please - how to isolate gnupg trouble

2015-10-05 Thread Reid Vail
Hello group - I have two laptops running Linux Mint 17.2 and GPG 1.4.16 and Claws-Mail. Both machines have the same Claws-mail plug-ins installed. However, on my primary machine I can't get PKI encryption to work and on my secondary it worked the first time. below is the message Claws kicks out,