7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
18:55
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