From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47077 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 02:34:02 +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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034210081 23204 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2002 00:34:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:34:41 +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 17zRHj-00061u-00 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:34:40 +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 17zRHb-0001Tg-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:34:31 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:35:13 -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 TAA17906 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:34:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8605 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2002 00:34:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8600 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 00:34:11 -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 00:34:11 -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 g9A0Y3Ft012806; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:34:03 +0200 Original-To: Clemens Fischer Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:021010:ino@despammed.com:dfe6f1658165f831 X-Hashcash: 0:021010:ding@gnus.org:1b3321ca42a1099d In-Reply-To: (Clemens Fischer's message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:58:54 +0200") 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:47077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47077 Clemens Fischer writes: > Andreas Fuchs : > >> Is it possible to divine the key-id to which a message was encrypted >> From the mail? I have seen pgg ask me if I want to download public >> keys, could it also ask for the right key-id's password? > > i got a question on this one: why does pgg sometimes ask if it should > get a public key and sometimes it lets a message silently fail for not > having that key? shouldn't it ask always? i have the *-option > variables set to 'known, and the method set to "pgpmime", because i > want to be able to encrypt/sign/decrypt multiparts. is this thinking > correct? basically, each part could be encoded and encrypted with a > "pgp" method as well, i guess. PGG only asks if it is able to extract a key-identifier from the OpenPGP message. Perhaps someone sends signed messages without the key identifier? Maybe you can dissect the OpenPGP message and look.