Why the software is crap

[Mick Crane]

Something is strange, I don't know much about this stuff but it seems important to you to have encryption working. It is so easy these days to install an OS automagically I would, in your case, make a fresh installation on some other machine and do what it is you want to do to prove a point. Then once you see it working you have confidence.
Cheers
Mick

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> On 14 Nov 2014, at 17:24, "david at gbenet.com" <david at gbenet.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 14/11/14 13:11, NdK wrote:
>> Il 14/11/2014 13:24, david at gbenet.com ha scritto:
>> 
>>> I have cooled. You can export your private key - you can export your public key. You can
>>> import your private key you can import your public key. In 20 years I have always had the
>>> same problem - the same error message and have each time created a new set of keys. I have
>>> done this 4 times.
>> If all four times you did the same wrong thing, then it's obvious that you got the same
>> wrong result.
>> 
>> Just to prove it's your error, I copied my .gnupg from one system (str957-142) to another
>> (str957-004), with the most basic method I ould think of. I'm not an expert (probably I
>> transferred more than what was needed!), but as you can see I succeeded at the first try!
>> 
>> diego at str957-142:~$ gpg --list-secret-keys
>> /home/diego/.gnupg/secring.gpg
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> sec   2048R/F9B9D307 2014-11-14
>> uid                  Diego <test at example.com>
>> ssb   2048R/3A4AD1C0 2014-11-14
>> 
>> diego at str957-142:~$ tar cvfz GnuPG-backup.tar.gz --exclude random_seed .gnupg
>> diego at str957-142:~$ gpg --clearsign GnuPG-backup.tar.gz
>> 
>> È necessaria una passphrase per sbloccare la chiave segreta
>> dell'utente: "Diego <test at example.com>"
>> 2048-bit chiave RSA, ID F9B9D307, creata 2014-11-14
>> 
>> diego at str957-142:~$ ls GnuPG-backup.tar.gz*
>> GnuPG-backup.tar.gz  GnuPG-backup.tar.gz.asc
>> diego at str957-142:~$ scp GnuPG-backup.tar.gz diego at str957-004:/home/diego
>> 
>> Then on the other PC:
>> 
>> diego at str957-004:~$ tar xvfz GnuPG-backup.tar.gz
>> .gnupg/
>> .gnupg/gpg-agent-info
>> .gnupg/pubring.kbx
>> .gnupg/gpg.conf
>> .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/
>> .gnupg/reader_0.status
>> .gnupg/pubring.gpg~
>> .gnupg/secring.gpg
>> .gnupg/scdaemon.conf
>> .gnupg/gpa.conf
>> .gnupg/trustdb.gpg
>> .gnupg/pubring.gpg
>> diego at str957-004:~$ gpg --clearsign GnuPG-backup.tar.gz
>> 
>> È necessaria una passphrase per sbloccare la chiave segreta
>> dell'utente: "Diego <test at example.com>"
>> 2048-bit chiave RSA, ID F9B9D307, creata 2014-11-14
>> 
>> diego at str957-004:~$ gpg --verify GnuPG-backup.tar.gz.asc
>> gpg: Firma eseguita in data ven 14 nov 2014 14:07:57 CET usando RSA, ID chiave F9B9D307
>> gpg: Firma valida da "Diego <test at example.com>"
>> 
>>> I notice that no one on this list - for all the talk of "oh I've done it" can offer no
>>> practical information has to HOW. No one. No one. No one knows how to do this simple task.
>>> In all my 20 years I have never found out how. Perhaps things are different under a Windows
>>> O/S but on Linux there is NO SOLUTION.
>> Done just now in Ubuntu. So there's an error on your side.
>> 
>> BYtE,
>> Diego.
>> 
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> I have a clean install of 64 bit LXD - all programmes are working 100 per cent. My keys get
> imported perfectly - every programme including Enigmail knows they are there. But when I try
> to sign or sign and encrypt I get the error referred too. No amount of copying no amount of
> backups no amount of anything will change that fact.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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