Thanks guys! finally, it worked! > I guess that the signature file is broken.
That was the problem. After downloading it again, everything just worked fine. And I skipped the > trust part of my description which I wrote down in my first mail! regards, md -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:53:27 +0100 > Von: Hauke Laging <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > CC: "Marco Dorigo" <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: verify TrueCrypt > Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 10:15:50 schrieb Marco Dorigo: > > > I followed the howto on truecrypt > > (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=digital-signatures) > > That description contains an "error". And you misunderstood something: > > "Sign the imported key with your private key to mark it as trusted". "To" > mark > ist trusted, not "and" mark it trusted. The trust you have set is > something > completely different (regarding the web of trust). > > The "error" is: "If you skip this step and attempt to verify any of our > PGP > signatures, you will receive an error message stating that the signing key > is > invalid." > > The error message just tells you that this key is not considered valid > yet. It > does tell you that the signature has been made by that key. And that's all > you > need. It usually does not make much sense to sign a key which you have not > checked. My advice: Either delete the signature or use the signing key for > "worthless" signatures only (and in a way that makes sure you are not > confused). > > > > Because when I'm trying to verify it > > gpg --verify truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz.sig > > truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz it just says: > > gpg: verify signatures failed: eof > > I guess that the signature file is broken. Download it again. If the > signed > file were broken then the error message should say that the signature is > wrong. > > What is the size of the signature file and what is the type of the signing > key? I assume that if the signature file is incomplete then somebody here > can > tell already by the length. > > We need the output of > gpg --list-keys > (for the TrueCrypt key only) > > > Hauke > -- > PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814 -- Marco Dorigo mail: [email protected] mobil: 0177-8905323 Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
