Re: decrypt and trusting certs

[Michael Diener <mdiener futurelab ch>]

On 10/05/2012 10:08:29 AM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Gpgme should transparently handle both, but I recommend to de-install  
> gpg and use only gpg2.

I can't de-install gnupg. A lot of packages depend on it, even critical  
ones (for example apt). Can I tell balsa to use a certain version or  
force it somehow to use gpg2?

> I use a gpg key - do you have the
>
> keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net   # or some other server
> keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
> use-agent
>
> options set in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf?  Do you use a proxy, which is  
> configured properly?  Please do also check if the environment  
> variable GPG_AGENT_INFO points to your running gpg-agent.
>
> You might try to run
>
> gpg2 --refresh-keys
>
> or
>
> gpg2 --search-keys 'albrecht dress arcor de'
>
> as to check if the gpg2 key server setup works.

This worked. I can now check your certificate. However, it does not  
turn green but stay on yellow. Saying that it has a good signature but  
is not valid enough (whatever that means).

I'm sticking to not sign my messages until I figure out what exactly  
the problem is. Maybe I'll switch to a gpg signing instead of S/MIME.  
It seems that works a lot better so far.

> You're welcome.  I'll be out for vacation for a few days, btw,  
> without access to the internet.  So please be patient if I don't  
> answer quickly...
>
> Cheers, Albrecht.

I wish you a wonderful vacation then!

Cheers, Michael