gpg encryption failed no public key

Grant Olson kgo at grant-olson.net
Fri Mar 12 21:25:27 CET 2010


On 3/12/2010 8:19 AM, nagaram.c wrote:
> 
> I figured out the issue....
> 
> Need to sign the key after it is imported.
> 
> Nag

You shouldn't need to sign the key.  It should give you a warning but
let you encrypt it anyway:

> It is NOT certain that the key belongs to the person named
> in the user ID.  If you *really* know what you are doing,
> you may answer the next question with yes.
>
> Use this key anyway? (y/N)

Signing will remove that warning, but you don't need to sign every
single key you import to use encryption.

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