I'm stumped what exactly is kpgp/gnupgp looking for in a "valid" passphrase?
I have tried just about everything I can think of and no matter what it is I get the same result "invalid passphrase please try again, until after a while it just says, invalid passphrase and revocation certificate ( or anything else that wants a passphrase ) is not created.. I tried reading the manual but got no help there... oh, it's Suse 9.3 a clean install , And I am attempting to put back the gnupg and kpgp items from 9.2, I can import them from a keyserver, but although a click on the kpgp icon shows the files , if I attempt to use one for a signature in kmail, it tells me there is no information there. Decrypts do the same it claims there is no information in the file... I can't even make a new one that shows up.. I have tried that as well. Most omoshiroii -- j kpgp fingerprint:2974 C0EF 1FDB E4FF 94C6 EF99 BD5E CC94 823B 8B73
And I am attempting to put back the gnupg and kpgp items from 9.2, I can import them from a keyserver, but although a click on the kpgp icon shows the files , if I attempt to use one for a signature in kmail, it tells me there is no information there.
Asymmetric cryptography (as in gnupg) uses *keypairs*. The keyserver contains only your public key. You need the private key to create a signature. Unless you made a backup of the private key yourself, the keypair is now useless. Even to declare the keypair invalid you need a revocation certificate (can be created by gnupg). -- Michel Messerschmidt, lists@michel-messerschmidt.de ~> rpm -q --whatrequires linux no package requires linux
On July Thursday 07 2005 2:55 pm, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:
And I am attempting to put back the gnupg and kpgp items from 9.2, I can import them from a keyserver, but although a click on the kpgp icon shows the files , if I attempt to use one for a signature in kmail, it tells me there is no information there.
Asymmetric cryptography (as in gnupg) uses *keypairs*. The keyserver contains only your public key. You need the private key to create a signature. Unless you made a backup of the private key yourself, the keypair is now useless. Even to declare the keypair invalid you need a revocation certificate (can be created by gnupg).
Thank you Michel, That was the solution... I'd thought I had reinstalled my older .gnupg folder... but, of course, I hadn't done it. It seems happier now .. at least it's quit grumbling so... assigned itself to kmail and all the other stuff I had expected to happen... Sometimes hurry up and do, only means slowly do over, a lot ! ;-) -- j
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-07-07 at 14:14 -0400, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
I tried reading the manual but got no help there... oh, it's Suse 9.3 a clean install , And I am attempting to put back the gnupg and kpgp items from 9.2, I can import them from a keyserver,
You need the private key, and that one is never exported to keyservers. It is only present in your your computer... if you did not save it, you lost it for ever. Worse, you can not even revoke your own key. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCzdidtTMYHG2NR9URAnkTAJ4/IpJCmV4eK/zrQbP8MR/uCQ4vOwCfaaR6 kC+jIsUw5hETPOUzI5Ia5GM= =7KrZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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