Re: Encrypting email

I know I can do it from the command line. The object of the exercise is
to get Enigmail's tools figured out.
Setting trust and signing keys are separate options, I can only assume
they are different things. It looks to me that when you sign a key you
set a trust value, but the trust value can be changed separately. I'm
not sure you can set trust on a key that hasn't been signed. But I won't
know until I get some other stuff working.

Jim

Adam bultman wrote:

> I have 1.4.1 on ubuntu. When I do it from the command line, I have two
> options for signing keys:
>
> --sign-key sign a key
> --lsign-key sign a key locally
>
>
> "setting trust" I thnk is the same thing as signing a key - try that.
>
> Adam
>
> Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> >Oh, yeah. I couldn't set "key trust" among other things except with
> >gpg at the command line. Apparently had to do with my old version
> >of gpg.
>
> >Jim
>
> >Damien Hull wrote:
>
> >>I did something to set Adam's key as "trusted". If you right
> >>click on a key you should see a list of options. One is "set key
> >>trust".
> >>
> >>Oh, I did get Adam's key using the command line tools. I used the
> >>MIT server. Can't remember how I did the search but it gave me a
> >>short list of "Adam's". I didn't do anything with that though.
> >>
> >>I'm not sure why the command line tools work but Enigmail can't
> >>get the key. You should be able to search using the key ID and
> >>get the key you're looking for.
> >>
> >>If we are having this much trouble there's no way the average
> >>user is going to encrypt email.
> >>
> >>I can see a business using it. You would have to train all the
> >>users but it could be done.
> >>
> >>Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >>
> >>>Adam's, I had no problem with. I got it from the German
> >>>keyserver I mentioned. The keyserver you used, I had to
> >>>download your key as an ASCII file and import it from there.
> >>>Joshua Kluger sent me his key in an email. Had no problem
> >>>importing it, but couldn't sign it.
> >>
> >>>Have you been able to sign or set trust levels using Enigmail's
> >>>tools on the Linux side? The only way I could do it was use
> >>>GnuPGs command line tools. couldn't find anything in the
> >>>Enigmail docs or forums either. Guess I'll have to post
> >>>something asking.
> >>
> >>>Less than useful for Joe Average end user.
> >>
> >>>Jim
> >>
> >>>Damien Hull wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>I can't get it working on Linux. I'm on FC3. I put the MIT
> >>>>server in my list but I couldn't get Adam's PGP key. I had to
> >>>>download it and import it manually.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've also had some trouble checking Adam's email. It once
> >>>>told me his email was bad. Something about the PGP key or
> >>>>sign or something.
> >>>>
> >>>>Looks like they have some work to do on securing email.
> >>>>
> >>>>Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>This is the message I accidentally sent encrypted
> >>>>>yesterday.
> >>>>
> >>>>>------------------
> >>>>
> >>>>>I've been doing some playing around with OpenPGP using
> >>>>>Enigmail w/ Thunderbird on W2K.
> >>>>
> >>>>>Can't seem to get it all working correctly. It won't let me
> >>>>>sign any keys using Enigmail's tools. I can sign them using
> >>>>>gnupg's command line tools.
> >>>>
> >>>>>It also won't let me send or receive keys at the Key Server
> >>>>>you're using, but it will let me from at least one other.
> >>>>>random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de. The only way I could get
> >>>>>your key was to download it and import it manually.
> >>>>
> >>>>>I'm also noticing that just signing kills html mail. Not
> >>>>>that that bothers me so much, but a lot of people like
> >>>>>using html mail. It will make it harder to get the general
> >>>>>public using it. I'm not sure I could ever get my sisters
> >>>>>to give up the background wallpaper on their email.
> >>>>
> >>>>>Jim Gribbin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Damien Hull wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>We were talking about email security at the meeting last
> >>>>>>night. I'm trying to setup pgp with Thunderbird.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>1. I have a public and private key 2. It's only set to
> >>>>>>last 6 months 3. I put the public key on a key server.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I had know idea what a key server was until I started
> >>>>>>this
> >>
> >>project. You
> >>
> >>>>>>don't have to use a key server but they seem like a good
> >>>>>>thing.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>You put your public key on the key server for others to
> >>>>>>look up. This email has my digital signature. You can
> >>>>>>check if it's really me by getting my pgp key from the
> >>>>>>key server.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I won't know if this works until someone tries to verify
> >>>>>>my email.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I used the following information to setup pgp in
> >>>>>>Thunderbird.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/1557216
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>-- You can get my public PGP key at https://keyserver.pgp.com
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>-- You can get my public PGP key at https://keyserver.pgp.com
>
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