From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47078 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pgg doesn't seem to like me Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:42:56 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20021001172713.05F1E3B8CE@athene.jamux.com> <87d6quugw5.fsf@athene.jamux.com> <87adly6kck.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <874rc5vs16.fsf@athene.jamux.com> <874rc57u6e.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873croy9g1.fsf@athene.jamux.com> <87elb5qyrx.fsf@athene.jamux.com> <87adlskjh3.fsf@athene.jamux.com> <87y999he70.fsf@athene.jamux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034210609 24762 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2002 00:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17zRQD-0006Qw-00 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17zRQ6-0001cC-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:43:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA17928 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:43:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8854 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2002 00:42:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8849 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 00:42:57 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 00:42:57 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9A0guFt012877; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:42:56 +0200 Original-To: jam@jamux.com (John A. Martin) Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:021010:jam@jamux.com:858932aee038ab86 X-Hashcash: 0:021010:ding@gnus.org:28a8b31d22008e5a In-Reply-To: <87y999he70.fsf@athene.jamux.com> (jam@jamux.com's message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:11:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47078 jam@jamux.com (John A. Martin) writes: > When I say "y" it fails because my system is not set up to allow any > random process to willy-nilly access any random outside entity. Maybe you can frob `pgg-default-keyserver-address'. But I don't think the keyserver stuff in PGG should be used if GnuPG is used, the GnuPG keyserver support is better and more likely to be set up correctly. I added a variable `pgg-query-keyserver' that toggles whether PGG fetches keys. It defaults to nil. Presumably, only non-GnuPG users would want to toggle this. > Gpg has had workable key fetching for a long time. Key fetching was > substantially improved in gnupg-1.0.7 and much improved again in > gnupg-2.0.0. Gnupg is committed to coordinating key fetch with the > improvements under way with many public key servers. IIRC more key > fetching improvements are slated for gnupg-2.0.1. This is to suggest > that users would be better served were gnus to let default key > fetching be left to the user's gpg and optioned by ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. One argument for PGG to fetch keys is that GnuPG's key fetching is disabled by default, and a mail reader without key fetching is pretty useless. Perhaps GnuPG should not be changed, but most common GnuPG distributions like Debian packages and RedHat packages should enable some keyserver by default, I think.