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 turned out to be a bug and thankfully Adam Schneider filed it. Comments were made here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1047851 Thank you again, I hope Seahorse is fixed soon. Cheers Adrian On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:40 +0000, Ciaran Mooney wrote: > 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 from a server. You then usually tell your email client that > you want to encrypt the message, and select their key. > > Some email clients pull the key from the server automatically if you > give the program the Key ID. Or you can download it from a server > (http://pgp.mit.edu/) by typing in their name. > > Keyservers will download keys from each other so once you submit it to > one, it usually gets populated around the internet after a while. I'd > submit it to a popular keyserver, Ubuntu have their own which I use > (http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/). > > Hope this helps, > > Ciarán -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
