Signing and encripting with GPG...

[Marian Stepka]

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On Monday 06 May 2002 14:20, Ladislav Strojil wrote:
> On Monday 06 May 2002 13:16, Marian Stepka wrote:
> > Howzit;
> >
> > Probably stupid problem, because it's not so important, but anyway. When I
> > received signed message and I'm online when I open it GPG automatically
> > download public key from the server if it is available. This seems to be
> > OK.
> 
> Well, if your GnuPG is configured to automatically download unknown keys, 
then
> this is what happens. :-))
> 
> > But, when I want to use this public key for encryption I must first sign
> > it. Is this OK?
> 
> This deserves few words.
> You should only sign key that you really trust. Do not sign unknown keys 
(eg.
> just downloaded from internet).
> If you still want to use them for encryption, sign them locally, so that 
your
> signature is not exported to keyservers. (--lsign)
> From KMail point of view, this behaviour is right, you cannot use untrusted
> keys for encryption.
> 
> > Another problem is, that key appear in the list of available keys only by
> > one of this ways:
> >
> > 1. Restarting KMail.
> 
> As far as I know some work is done in this directions. Currently, you need 
to
> restart KMail. This is because keyring is read only upon KMail startup.
> 
> > 2. Restarting whole KDE.
> This should not be needed at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lada
> 

Thanks a lot.

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