On Monday 30 April 2018 12:52:56 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Heck, I've fooled around because I do get signed messages, but I've > > yet to figure out how to get a successfull verification that the > > signage is correct. Setup needs help with setup. �Humm, isn't that a > > circular dependency? ;-/ > > If you use Kmail or Knode it would do the work for you. You just need > to maintain your keylists properly - perhaps in Kgpg. So as soon as > you verify a key, you alter the key trust level - the next time you > open an email signed with the key, it should show green, or yellow. > > Otherwise you can use gpg on the command line to verify the message. > The purpose of the signature is to verify that this is exactly the > message, that was sent, so the whole message is passed trough gnupg. > The signature can also be used to identify the public key of the > sender > > I don't see redundancy - just another level of work (likebehind the > curtains). > > regards > The biggest problem is that I have a public key that was published back about pgp-262 or 262a time, 20 years back, so its out there "someplace", so I expect I should try to locate it and remove it from view/use before I try to setup another. Unforch ther drive in the amiga died, and took the keys with it to that great pasture that shitty drives goto when they fail. I don't recall if I set an expire on it or not. Or without the shorter ID string, how to convince the key-servers its mine, so its ok to nuke that puppy. Sigh... Don't get old, deloptes, its not all the fun its cracked up to be. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>