Jeff Abrahamson on Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:31:10 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] GnuPG 1.2.1 trustdb checks for every pubkey import?


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:12:16PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:47:24PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > How screwed am I now? Is there something I should be doing to verify
> > the structure of my pubring?
> 
> Not screwed at all.  The automatic backup file in pubring.gpg~ should
> restore you back to happiness.
> 
> > I'm going to restart the rebuild having removed auto-key-retrieve
> > from my .gnupg/gpg.conf's keyserver-options.
> 
> That should do it.

This advice *sounds* good, but is bothersome in its own way because
Mutt says

  gpg: Signature made Thu 27 Feb 2003 01:12:16 PM EST using DSA key ID 49E1CBC9
  gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

Moreover,

jeff@asterix:Mutt $ gpg --list-sigs |grep  49E1CBC9      
jeff@asterix:Mutt $ gpg --list-sigs |grep  -i shaw
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-11-09   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-11-09   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-11-09   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-12-25   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
pub  4096R/99242560 2002-01-28 David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 3       99242560 2002-01-28   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig         99242560 2002-01-28   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-12-25   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
sig 2   P   99242560 2002-12-25   David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
jeff@asterix:Mutt $ gpg --recv-keys 49E1CBC9
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
jeff@asterix:Mutt $ 


David, do you have a secret other key? Could you cross sign them?

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276  63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B

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