Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Tom Allison <tallison@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lim wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 7:47 am, Tom Allison wrote:
>  
>
> > But for encription is a public server really necessary?
> > I thought I could just ship the recipient the public key.
> >    
>
> Public-private key crypto.
>
> If you send your public key to your recipient, then someone could intercept it 
> and replace it with their public key. What happens then? He can start sending 
> your recipient messages pretending to be you.
>
> Why do you need a public key server? It allows distribution of public keys 
> without that particular problem (given that you trust the key server). 
> Obviously a signed public key would be better and physically handing your 
> recipient the key would be even better.
>
> HTH
> Jon
>
>  
Actually, I was planning on passing the key via ssh.
But that's irrelevant now.

I can't get enigmail to do anything right now.

How do I set this up?  I've created a passkey with a password, but 
everytime I enter the password I get a mountain of errors

Error - bad passphrase
gpg command line and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --clearsign -u 
<tallison@xxxxxxxxxx>
...
gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session
gpg: can query password in batch mode
gpg: Invalid passphrase, please try again....

This repeats.

This is also wrong because I know what the password is and it's correct.
I just created a new one and tried that passphrase and it's not working 
either.
I suspect it has to do with gpg-agent or batch mode, but I'm not sure.