Access to key servers through athenticating proxy server

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:30:29AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> I have a firewall that enforces policy of accessing Internet by using 
> proxy server only (no direct connections to outside world from internal 
> network).  The proxy uses authentication (username and password) to 
> limit access only to some users.  I was able to find at least one key 
> server that supports connections over port 80, but I couldn't get 
> through the proxy.
> 
> The problem is that when using proxy server, gpg doesn't seem to support 
> proxy authentication.  It simply prints that key was not found on the 
> key server, instead of prompting me for proxy username and password.
> 
> Even if I place username/password into http_proxy environment variable 
> ('http://username:password@myproxy.mydomain.com:port'), it still doesn't 
> work.  In this case it attempts to connect to proxy named 
> 'username.mydomain.com' (obviously it is unable to correctly parse URL 
> that defines the proxy server, so it interprets it as if it was 
> 'http://username').  I don't like placing password there, but I wanted 
> to try if that would work.
> 
> Are there any plans to make a bit more robust proxy support for 
> accessing key servers?

The upcoming GnuPG 1.4 supports username/password authentication for
proxies.  You might download the latest 1.3.x release and give it a
try.

David