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