Import help

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 12-Mar-2004/09:57 +1100, r cannon <rebecca at tardis.ath.cx> wrote:
>Trying to import someones pubkey. Using mac os x have tried the GPG Keys
>gui, which said it sucessfully imported the pubkey.txt file (however the
>file never showed up in the list).
>
>Have also tried gpg --import ~/path/pubkey.txt but this comes back with the
>error 
>'gpg: NOTE: old default options file `/Users/rebecca/.gnupg/options' ignored
>gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
>gpg: Total number processed: 0'

Try renaming your options file to gpg.conf.

If the key is on a keyserver, try retrieving it like this:

  gpg --keyserver [ldap://]servername --recv-key 0xNNNNNNNN

The default protocol is "hkp://" so if it's an LDAP server you have to
specify LDAP on the commandline.

Tony
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OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26  C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D
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