GPA and hkps

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jun 25 21:05:51 CEST 2012


On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:22, jw72253 at verizon.net said:

> message when I use GPA to try retrieving a key. The message states
> this: "There is no plugin available for the keyserver protocol you
> specified." What am I missing? Thanks.

IIRC, GPA has no support for "hpks".  You need to use "hkp".  For
historical reasons GPA uses GnuPG's key server helper programs directly
and has not been updated to allow for TLS encrypted connections.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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