From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
Subject: Re: A few questions on signing/encrypting emails
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:01:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wmaf1wa.fsf@broken.deisui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y7pdyt9l.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Tue\, 12 Dec 2006 16\:27\:02 +0000")
Sorry for late response. I missed this article.
>>>>> In <m2y7pdyt9l.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have few questions:
> o When signing an email, my private key will be used, right?
> And I could encrypt an email with just the recipient's pub
> key. But when I send an encrypted email, I will also be
> prompted to input passphrase. Does this mean signing is
> automatically done?
Yes.
(message)Signing and encryption
By default, when encrypting a message, Gnus will use the
"signencrypt" mode, which means the message is both signed and
encrypted.
> o What is the simplest way to handle multiple personal keys? I
> created two keys. One for work and one for anything
> else. But when I signed an email, only the one indicated by
> pgg-default-user-id is used.
That's one of the major limitations of PGG. Even you could set
multiple personal keys by a new variable, you will see that you cannot
supply your passphrase multiple times without gpg-agent.
However, No Gnus (the development version of Gnus) supports that case.
You can set mml2015-signers.
> o When I try to encrypt an email to a recipient whose pub key
> is not in my pub-key-ring, I will get an error
> (wrong-type-argument epg-key-p nil) (full backtrace
> attached). How to set up gnus to import the pubkey from
> key-server?
Try adding the following lines to ~/.gnupg/options
auto-key-locate keyserver
keyserver <keyserver>
Anyway, the error message is confusing. I've changed it more
intuitive. http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/root/epg/pgg-epg.el?r1=1.28&r2=1.29
Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 16:27 Leo
2007-01-05 6:01 ` Daiki Ueno [this message]
2007-01-05 6:08 ` Leo
2007-01-10 17:33 ` Leo
2007-01-11 1:01 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-01-11 2:33 ` Leo
2007-01-11 3:53 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-01-11 9:15 ` Leo
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