On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:43, Joe Berry wrote: > (I hope this email didn't get posted twice. I sent the first copy > before I had registered myself. I don't think it was distributed.)
If you're not on the list... you're mail is not coming in ;) (hehe... makes me sound like a doorman) > I'm not a heavy user of pgp so this problem may well be do to > something I'm not doing right. Until now, I have only encrypted and > decrypted messages. Nothing wrong with playing. I do it all the time. > At any rate, I received the notice of the new version of TheBat (v > 1.61) and happened to notice that there was a pgp signature > associated with the email. Furthermore, there was a URL to RitLab's public > encryption key (PGP key is available at >https://support.ritlabs.com/pgpkeys/office.txt). > So I grabbed the public key and imported it to my pgp keyring. I then > asked TheBat to verify the signature of the 1.61 announcement email. > Pgp displayed a message saying that the key was invalid. Yes, and thanks to the very helpful Marck, I managed to understand the reasoning behind this 'error'. It is in fact a bad choice of phrasing by the developers, and should really say something more along the lines of "untrusted key". Although the key is valid (if you check with TB! developers I'm sure they can vouch for it), you have not set a trust level on the key. This (badly) reports the key is invalid. This is not true however. The key is valid, just not necessarily trusted. If you open up PGPkeys, sign the key with an unexportable signature (only you can use it), and set it to trusted, then recheck the same message, and you should notice the message goes away. Marck was also kind enough to point out GnuPG (I think that was it) actually behaves a little better, or at least gives you better messages. For example, actually says untrusted key, instead of invalid key. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
