On 01/14/2013 02:08 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 01/14/2013 02:43 PM, soportek wrote:
>> When I attempt to send a signed or signed and encypted e-mail from my
>> account I receive the following error.
>>
>> "Send operation aborted.
>> Key 0xABCDEF01 not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have expired."
> 
> i don't think this is your actual keyid.  providing your actual keyid
> would help other people take a look at it for you.

You got me. Yeah that was just a substitute key id. I am actually
writing on behalf of a co-worker who is having problems with her setup.
I wrote in first person for simplicty's sake. The real key hasn't been
uploaded to any keyserver yet though so I'm not sure it would help.

> from the command line, you can try:
> 
>  gpg --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-keys 0xABCDEF01 \
>  | grep '^[ps]ub'

Running this on her machine for her key shows the primary with scaESCA
and one subkey that is e encryption capable.

In thunderbird Account Settings > OpenPGP security settings for the
e-mail account in question it is assigned to use the primary key.

That seems fine doesn't it?

> 
> For my own key (the one i'm signing this message with), that shows:
> 
> pub:u:4096:1:CCD2ED94D21739E9:1180812858:1424970931::u:::scESCA:
> sub:u:2048:1:125868EA4BFA08E4:1213887850:1424970982:::::a:
> sub:u:4096:1:C61BD3EC21484CFF:1180815151:1424970970:::::e:
> 
> 
> Looking at the last column shows me that the primary key ("pub") is
> signing and certification capable ("sc") and that the combined OpenPGP
> certificate as a whole is capable of Encryption, Signing, Certification,
> and Authentication ("ESCA").
> 
> I have two sub keys ("sub"), one of which is authentication-capable
> ("a"), and the other of which is encryption-capable ("e").
> 
> You can try applying this to your own key to see if it matches your
> expectations.
> 
>       --dkg
> 



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