Weird, weird GPG issues

Caleb Marcus caleb.marcus at gmail.com
Fri May 9 06:08:13 BST 2008


Looks like somehow my ElGamal key expired... I'm using the Seahorse
frontend to GPG, which apparently didn't update the expiry date for that
key, only my DSA key. I'll look into how to fix it.
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:01 -0700, Ian McEwen wrote:

> I get the same problem when trying to encrypt anything with your public
> key. It does appear to be broken somehow.
> 
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:40:11AM -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > It appears that there's something wrong with my public key... I can't
> > encrypt anything to it. On the command line, GPG says "no such user ID"
> > when I enter my email address or key ID, however, it shows up when I do
> > gpg --list-keys. I tried to send an encrypted message to myself with
> > Evolution, but the error I got was: "gpg: caleb.marcus at gmail.com:
> > skipped: unusable public key." Can someone try sending me encrypted
> > mail, or encrypting anything to me, to see if the public key that I have
> > published is somehow broken?
> 
> 
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