some questions

[Brian M. Carlson]

On Saturday 02 June 2001 08:59, Konstantin Sorokin wrote:
> 1) The thing I would like to know in first place is how can I
> access to keyservers through firewall. I add to .gnupg/options
> address of keyserver and also add honor-http-proxy, but thing still
> doesn't work. I use mutt as a MUA ant it can verify signature
> of mail automaticaly by invoking pgp, but as far it can't accsess
> to keyserver veryfication always fails ;-(

At the command prompt, type "set HTTP_PROXY=www.myproxy.com", where 
www.myproxy.com is the name of your proxy. Set mutt to use gpg for signing, 
verifying, encrypting, etc. The Mutt HOWTO is here: 
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html>. It was written for 
Linux, but it's pretty much the same for all platforms.
*If and only if your keyserver still doesn't work*, try a line like 
"keyserver x-broken-hkp://horowitz.surfnet.nl:11371/". You must have the port 
and the "x-broken-hkp://". This tells gpg that you probably have a broken 
proxy.

> 2) What about using GnuPg and pgp togather? Will there be any
> problems?

I'd just suggest using gpg. If you want compatibility with PGP, set the 
force-v3-sigs and escape-from-lines options and unset the openpgp option in 
your options file. These disable full OpenPGP compatibility, however.

-- 
Brian M. Carlson
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