WKD question

[Stefan Claas]

Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote:
 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:00:07PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:
> >For testing my new Nitrokey I have just install Enigmail for
> >Thunderbird on a fresh Ubuntu system and when clicking on
> >a signed message from a friend, which has properly set-up
> >WKD Thunderbird/Enigmail can not fetch the pub key. :-(
> 
> Unless I missed something, I believe Enigmail will only attempt to 
> automatically fetch a key from a Web Key Directory when *composing* a 
> message (if there’s no key for the recipient in the local keyring), and 
> *not* when checking a signature on a received message.
> 
> See that excerpt from Enigmail 2.0 changelog [1]:
> 
> > Support for Web Key Directory (WKD) is implemented. Enigmail will try 
> > to download unavailable keys during message composition from WKD.

Ah, ok, thanks. I thought it will fetch also automatically when checking
signatures.

> You can force GnuPG to try to fetch a missing key when verifying a 
> signature by enabling the --auto-key-retrieve option (please read the 
> note about the “web bug” in gpg’s man page before doing so—that option 
> is disabled by default for a reason.)

I enabled it now and it works. :-)

Regards
Stefan

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