On 7/15/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mustafa Qasim wrote:
>
>
> On 7/15/07, *Mikkel L. Ellertson* <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> wrote:
>
> Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> > a) Sorry for top posting. I didn't noticed that but I shall in future.
> > b) I replace the .ssh and .gnupg directory with the backup i took
> after
> > just creating the keys and now keys are working well on my system but
> > still I can't send it to the key server. Is the key server down? or
> > please guide me how to locally extract the ASCII from my key and
> > actually which one is the main key file holding the ASCII among the 5
> > files in the .gnupg directory?
> >
> You do not need to know what file the key is in. As long as it is in
> your keyring, gpg can extract it. This is what the --extract option
> does. The --armor option give you the output in ASCII instead of
> binary. The --outfile option will send the output to a file instead
> of displaying it in the terminal. (The defaults sends it to the
> standard output.)
>
> If the name you used when creating the key was Mustafa, the you
> would use:
>
> gpg --export --armor --outfile key.txt Mustafa
>
> This would create a file called key.txt in the current directory
> with the ASCII representation of your public key. You can then open
> key.txt in a work processor or text editor if you want.
>
> As far as your problems with the key server, you can try using a
> different one and see if that helps. Try using
> random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de> or subkeys.pgp.net
> <http://subkeys.pgp.net> and see if that
> works better.
>
> Mikkel
>
> Sir, thanks for the 2 further key server links but both didn't work :((
> ....
>
> For the first server random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de > it says that
> gpg: can not connect to "random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de >" : No such file or directory
>
That is strange. What it should do is pick a keyserver at random to
connect to. It is designed to spread the load among keyservers.
> and for the other subkeys.pgp.net <http://subkeys.pgp.net> . it reacts
> like the pgp.mit.edu <http://pgp.mit.edu> ... gives connection time out
> error after 1 minute ..
>
How are you connecting to the Internet? Do you go through a proxy?
If so, you will need the "--keyserver-options http-proxy=value"
option or set http_proxy in your shell.
> Y all this is happening with me :( ..... Y i can't submit the key to the
> key server...
>
It sounds like something is blocking the connection from gpg to the
keyserver.
Were you able to generate the ASCII file of your key?
Mikkel
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Yes! I am behind a proxy but all other work goes fine. I didn't need to set proxy path for any other work. but Ok our proxy is 10.0.0.1 ... now what is the syntax to declare proxy?
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