[ILUG] gpg & encryption

[John P. Looney]

 Dammit but gpg is a lot more confusing than it used to be. How do I export
out an ascii version of my public key ? --export just gives me binary. How
do I stop the "using insecure memory" errors every time I run the poxy
thing ? 

 I downloaded a public key as a test from 
http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?search=roessler@guug.de&op=get 

 and added it to my keys as so:

% cat file | gpg --import 
gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: key C385E037: public key imported
gpg: key CE6AC6C1: unsupported public key algorithm
gpg: key CE6AC6C1: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: key 593238E1: unsupported public key algorithm
gpg: key 593238E1: unsupported public key algorithm
gpg: key 593238E1: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 3
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 2
gpg:               imported: 1
% gpg --list-keys
/home/jplooney/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
---------------------------------
pub  1024D/BAB730E7 1999-11-25 John P. Looney <valen at tuatha.org>
sub  1024g/B0ECACEB 1999-11-25

pub  1024D/C385E037 1998-02-09 Thomas Roessler <roessler at guug.de>
sub  2048g/8A615B05 1998-02-09

 That looks like it worked, yeah ? Did it ? why, when I try and verify the
signature in mutt, does it say :

[-- PGP output follows (current time: Fri Nov 26 10:04:22 1999) --]
gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: Signature made Thu 25 Nov 1999 12:58:51 PM GMT using ? key ID CE6AC6C1
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
[-- End of PGP output --]          

 I'm not sure, but I think it could be that the keyids just match. If so, I
say "smeg" and wonder why yer mans key on the keyserver is different to the
one he's signing stuff with...

Kate

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