Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 12 March 2006 8:28 am, ken wrote:
Using Firefox, brought up the page mentioned above, clicked on File > Save Page As, gave a directory and filename, and clicked OK. Nothing at all mysterious or unusual. After the first download I used vi to trim off the couple html lines above and below the key delimiters (even though I was almost sure it didn't matter-- gpg would find the delimiters). For the second download (after the first file wouldn't import) I left the little bit of html code in the file and got the same result.
After the second failure I did a diff on the two files and the only difference was that aforementioned html code.
Did you download the key from the page cited above? Or somewhere else?
I went straight to the url in your message, did a selection of
the key then right clicked and did copy text (using Opera). Switched to kate and did an edit paste, saved the result as test.key and it imported just fine.
Scott
Thanks, Scott. I just used a cut-n-paste to a gnome-terminal, ran "gpg --import ..." on it and it worked. This is the method I use most often, so I guess I'll stay with it. I didn't use it on this page earlier because cutting and pasting sometimes horks on big chunks of text... a limitation of the clipboard size, I'm told. So on to the next step. Thanks again. -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.