cannot export key

[Neil Williams]

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On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, Marcin Gil wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> By the strange twist of fate my whole /home went into the oblivion.
> I lost all my keyrings and had to revcert all my keys.

Backups???
I suppose I'm lucky with multiple installations, I end up with several work=
ing=20
backups. What is the 'recommended' way to back up secring.gpg? (www.gnupg.o=
rg=20
seems to not want to respond to me tonight.)

> I've created a new keypair with 2 uids, added a photo and tried
> to send it to the keyserver (search.keyserver.net).
> Now, if I use cli (eg. gpg --send-key) I get answer status=3D200.
> But the key does not exist on the server.
>
> If I add it by copy-paste keyserver software claims
> 'The keyring you have submitted is invalid'!

I'd guess that it was the photo ID that the keyserver is complaining about.=
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Some keyservers will take it (others here will know which), but for now=20
probably the best thing to do is to put the key on a website somewhere=20
obvious and put a link to the site in your email signature lines or in the=
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email headers.


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Neil Williams
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