Re: [suse-security] Getting public keys for signed mails automatically

[Christian Boltz <suse-security@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Samstag, 24. Juli 2004 17:25 schrieb Jürgen Mell:
> I have set up kmail to use OpenPGP for encripted and signed mails.
> When I get signed mails this works pretty well as long as the public
> key of the sender is in my key ring. If it is not I get a warning
> that the public key is not available.
> Of course I could now download the public key from a key server
> (provided that it is available on the server) and import it with kgpg
> but that's a long way to go.
> Is there any means to automate this process, eg. to downlad public
> keys which are not in the key ring when a mail is opened?

GPG can auto-retrieve the keys.

You have a t-o{n,ff}line adress, so I assume you understand German ;-)
So have a look at my homepage:http://www.cboltz.de/de/linux/gpgoffle?sec

If you have a flatrate and are always online, adding 
    keyserver-options honor-http-proxy auto-key-retrieve
    keyserver wwwkeys.de.pgp.net
to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf (perhaps without "honor-http-proxy") should be 
enough.


Gruß

Christian Boltz
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