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

2017-01-30 Thread Peter Lebbing
First off, two questions: Why are you using GnuPG 1.4 by the way? It's generally only recommended for server deployments rather than end-users. For desktop use, 2.0 and 2.1 are often a better choice. And are you sure GnuPG 1.4 is the only GnuPG on your system? 1.4 and 2.0 will happily work togeth

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 and keystrokes to help create the k

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

2017-01-27 Thread Peter Lebbing
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 and keystrokes to help create the keys. Tried it several > times > but it never succeeded. I also tried

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

2017-01-27 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 27/01/17 03:25, Reid Vail wrote: > rsv2@rsv2-Serval-Pro ~ $ gpg --with-fingerprint rsv869@runbox.com_public.asc > pub 2048R/26F66FEB 2016-11-09 Reid Vail > Key fingerprint = 3A74 A1DB 2C79 6657 D14B A6B8 3EDE 6A32 26F6 6FEB > sub 2048R/14C2E935 2016-11-09 > pub 2048R/A780EFF6 2017-01-

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

2017-01-26 Thread Reid Vail
Hello Vedaal - Sorry if top-posting is bad 'Net manners. Thank for your reply. Trying to follow your instructions, really. And not trying to be too slow to follow. Below are the steps I took, and the results. Your suggestions were very straight forward but I couldn't get them to work. When

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

2017-01-21 Thread Reid Vail
Hello Vedaal - Thanks for your reply. I executed the steps you listed (see below) and they completed without any errors. However I am not yet successful at getting my GPG implementation to work. Working in Claws-mail I try to send a encrypted test message to the address with the available publ

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

2017-01-17 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
On 2017-01-17 at 21:09, Reid Vail wrote: > rsv2@rsv2-Serval-Pro ~ $ gpg --clearsign --local-user --default-key > encryption\ test > You are telling GnuPG to clear sign a file called "encryption test" with a local key that has a User ID (UID) containing "--default-key". Try using: gpg --clea

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

2017-01-17 Thread Reid Vail
Hello GPG team - I have tried to get GPG working but am stuck and need some help isolating the issue, please. I'm running GnuPG 1.4.20-1 on Linuxmint KDE 18. My mail package is Claws-mail 1.13.2, but I don't think it's a mail issue. I can run GnuPG at the command line and can create a new key