Re: Possibly OT: problem with gpg.el

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@tbe.net> writes:
>
> I'm really liking the whole gpg experience, and there's only one thing
> that's keeping me from working on auto-validation of all PGP-signed
> messages -- the fact that there seems to be no way to auto-fetch
> unknown keys.
>
> Am I being clueless here? Should I try to write some elisp? What do I
> do? :-)

Well, I don't have a solution within XEmacs (or Gnus), but...

,----[ ~/.gnupg/options ]
| # Options for GnuPG
| 
| [...]
| 
| # GnuPG can import a key from a HKP keyerver if one is missing
| # for sercain operations. Is you set this option to a keyserver
| # you will be asked in such a case whether GnuPG should try to
| # import the key from that server (server do syncronize with each
| # others and DNS Round-Robin may give you a random server each time).
| # Use "host -l pgp.net | grep www" to figure out a keyserver.
| keyserver www.keyserver.net
| 
| # The environment variable http_proxy is only used when the
| # this option is set.
| 
| honor-http-proxy
`----

This works for me. gpg will fetch unknown keys on it's very own.

Er, I do use the mailcrypt code rather than gpg.el to drive gpg but I
doubt that will make a meaningful difference...

        Daniel

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