unable to send key to keyserver

[caleb]

Charly Avital wrote:
> caleb wrote the following on 4/4/09 5:15 AM:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been reading a book about openPGP and have installed GnuPG. I 
>> have successfully created a keypair and have created a revocation 
>> certificate. But when I try and send my key to a keyserver with the command:
>>
>> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-keys myemail at mydomain.com.au
>>
>> i get an error:
>>
>> gpg: "myemail at mydomain.com.au" not a key ID: skipping
>>     
>
> >From man gpg:
>
>  --send-keys key IDs
> Fingerprints  may  be used instead of key IDs. Option --keyserver must
> be used to give the name of this keyserver. Don't send your com-
> plete  keyring  to  a keyserver --- select only those keys which
> are new or changed by you.
>   
>> I don't know why this happens as this is the email address I used when 
>> creating the keypair and gpg printed that this address was part of my 
>> User ID. I tried another command:
>>     
>
> This happens because your command line indicated as argument your e-mail
> address, that is your User ID, instead of the key ID, that is composed
> by the last eight digits of the key's fingerprint.
>
> As indicated above, you can use also the whole fingerprint.
>
>   
>> gpg --output  pubkey.myemail at mydomain.com.au.gpg.asc --armor --export 
>> myemail at mydomain.com.au
>>
>> this worked and printed my public key to a text file. I have no idea why 
>> it is not accepting my email as part of my user id when I try and send 
>> keys to the keyserver.
>>     
>
> As indicated above, because when sending to a keyserver, you have to
> include the Key(s) ID, not your User ID (UID)
>
> Best regards,
> Charly
Hi Charly,

Thanks for the help, I found the fingerprint and the keyid and 
successfully sent the key to the keyserver.

thanks again
caleb.