Observations on GnuPG 1.0.1d

[Brian Galbraith]

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Hi Folks

I posted about part of this a short time ago and received no answer. I have
been investigating several combinations and permutations of mail programs
and guifront ends for GnuPG.
Until recently I have been using XFmail which gives good GnuPG support. I
am nowplaying around with a patched version of KMail, and I have also tried
the Geheimnis GUI.

I have found that on a regular basis I have to delete my keyrings and
reinstall from my backup.

1) XFMail is able to sign messages, but is unable to find public keys for
encryption.
2)Kmail signs OK, but encrypts to the recipient and does not encrypt to
self.
3)Geheimnis both encrypts and signs, but returns the following error
message:

Executing: gpg --no-batch --comment "Made with Geheimnis" -e -s -u 010FA449963EBA765 -a -t 
- --no-default-keyring 
- --secret-keyring /home/brian/.gnupg/secring.gpg
- --keyring /home/brian/.gnupg/pubring.gpg -r 0C81AFA55D3AD93BE -r
010FA449963EBA765 -o /home/brian/GnuPGWork/3.pgp /home/brian/GnuPGWork/3

gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Brian Galbraith <brian.galbraith@bigfoot.com>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID 63EBA765, created 1999-11-01

gpg: 93D14EAC: skipped: public key not found
gpg: using secondary key 80312AC5 instead of primary key 63EBA765
gpg: using secondary key 6A4B0B72 instead of primary key D3AD93BE

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 WARNING: The encryption program returned error code 134514624.
 Please close this window when you are done to return to Geheimnis.


When I check my processes using kpm........Ifind a list of GPG processes
which are given zombie status.

When I delete and reinstall my keyrings..all is as should be......until the
next time.

I am using SuSE Linux 6.3 with GnuPG
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Brian Galbraith
Linux User 123411
Sign Only Key 0x6A6DFEFB
Default Key 0x63EBA765 (DH/DSA)
PGP Keys fromwww. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/
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