Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

2009-01-23 Thread Ciaran Mooney
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

2009-01-23 Thread 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

2009-01-22 Thread Adrian
My Thanks to Graham for correspondence. I found the solution to the broken pipe seems to have been a synching of the key servers after I had added Graham to my key list. The trouble is I now have a couple more questions. How do I encrypt a mail to someone who has just given a key id? If I can

[ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

2009-01-21 Thread Adrian
Hi all, enthused by the talk a gpg/pgp whatever, I tried this for myself. I set up a key as suggested http://support.real-time.com/linux/email/client/evolutionpgp.html#evolution I set up evolution on my mail account and I can sign and send with gpg to another name on my domain but when I try to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken gpg pipes

2009-01-21 Thread Graham Binns
On 21/01/09 13:36, Adrian wrote: [...] Could not create message. Because Failed to execute gpg: Broken pipe, you may need to select different mail options. This happens if I send it to someone without a key in my keyring and Mr Binns, I hope you don't mind I got your key off the server