[ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

[Adrian]

Thank you Cairan,

That was very informative and I think you have brought me up to speed on
it.

One of the reasons I had issues was because although I could search
people's names I could not find them from their Key ID. Having never
used it before I assume my ignorance to be the fault. This turned out to
be a bug and thankfully Adam Schneider filed it.

Comments were made here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1047851

Thank you again,

I hope Seahorse is fixed soon.

Cheers

Adrian


On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:40 +0000, Ciaran Mooney wrote: 
> OpenPGP is the standard that both PGP (a proprietary product) and
> GnuPG use. As they operate on the same standard keys generated in
> either work in both.
> 
> If you wan to send an encrypted message to someone you need to get
> their key. If they have told you what their Key ID is then you can
> pull it from a server. You then usually tell your email client that
> you want to encrypt the message, and select their key.
> 
> Some email clients pull the key from the server automatically if you
> give the program the Key ID. Or you can download it from a server
> (http://pgp.mit.edu/) by typing in their name.
> 
> Keyservers will download keys from each other so once you submit it to
> one, it usually gets populated around the internet after a while. I'd
> submit it to a popular keyserver, Ubuntu have their own which I use
> (http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ciarán