[Help-gnutls] Error setting the OpenPGP keyring file

Nikos Mavroyanopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon Jun 17 09:18:01 CEST 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:02:12PM +0300, Nikos Mavroyanopoulos wrote:

> > Im strugling against the learning curve trying to understand the
> > implementation of ssl type communictations.
> > I thought i could use gnutls-serv and gnutls-cli to test things out,
> > however i get errors trying to start the server with various gpg options
> > e.g.
> > bug1 at home:~$ gnutls-serv --pgpkeyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> > Error setting the OpenPGP keyring file
> > Echo Server ready. Listening to port '5556'.
> You should note that the openpgp support is still of very alpha
> quality. Also encrypted stuff are not accepted at all.
> I do not remember if keyrings may be encrypted, Timo should know better.

Ok Timo just told me that you need to export your keyring using:
	gpg --export > keyring.tls

GnuPG uses some internal packets which caused some parsing problems 
in the gnutls code.

PS. This is no longer a problem in the cvs.

-- 
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
mailto:nmav at gnutls.org




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