Re: [Evolution] GPG integration is good, but questions remain

[Alec Peden <pezking jaded org>]

if you set "no-tty" in your options file then you wont get the "gpg:
cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured"

On 13 Feb 2001 14:57:48 -0800, Karel P Kerezman wrote:
> I did eventually get the GPG to work... turns out I'm a bit of an idiot.
> I was trying to use a keypair for kerezman kgon com when I should have
> been using rael zero kgon com 's keypair. Whoops. Once I got around that
> little snafu it started behaving nicely. I can sign, and as long as I've
> got my ~/.gnupg/options file pointing to the wwwkeys.us.pgp.net instead
> of search.keyserver.net I can even get it to download sigs for email I
> read from other list members. For instance, Sejal Patel's sig came down
> just fine, and reads as "This message is digitally signed but can not be
> proven to be authentic." Which is, of course, as it should be since we
> haven't signed one another's keys. (There's a thought... an Evo
> keysigning party? Nevermind, I'm too busy too.) Dan Berger's pubkey
> hasn't been submitted to the pgp.net keyservers, so didn't automagically
> download.
>
> I'm curious: Where is Evo getting the "red text" for the digital
> signature section of an email I'm reading (one assumes stout), and why
> does it complain "gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured"?
> Oddly enough, it doesn't offer that complaint for the public key that
> gpg wasn't able to retrieve.
>
> Even so... this is stunningly cool. Dear gods, I may force myself to
> engage in full-scale public key cryptography yet.
>
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