kmail doesn t sign/encrypt e-mails, broken pipe

[Erik Wasser]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 15:41, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:42:30 +0100, Erik Wasser said:
> > pub   2048R/33EAF336 2002-04-29 Real Name <someone at somewhere.tld>
> > sig!         36F3EA33 2002-04-29   [User id not found]
> >
> > Stupid question (again): what does *that* mean?
>
> Your key is broken and there is no subkey usable for encryption.  For
> a valid key you should get such a listing:
>
>   pub   1024D/9CD9FD55 2000-12-14
>   uid                  Joe Random Hacker
>   sig!3        9CD9FD55 2000-12-14  Joe Random Hacker
>   sub   1024g/381701C4 2000-12-14
>   sig!         9CD9FD55 2000-12-14  Joe Random Hacker
>
> (gpg 1.2 merges the first "uid" line with the "pub" line)
>
> You can see the user ID with a self-signature and a subkey with the
> key binding self-signature. If you do a gpg --list-keys --with-colons
> you even get more information:
>
>   pub:f:1024:17:AF82244F9CD9FD55:976803034:::q:::scaESCA:
>   uid:f::::976803034::18652B8DFEFDC53FBD2553FC289B6D3FC2033BC0::\
>                                                Joe Random Hacker:
>   sub:f:1024:16:087DD7E0381701C4:976803037::::::e:
>
> Note the "scaESCA" in the first line.  The capitalized letters say,
> the entiere key (primary and subkeys) may be used for: encryption,
> signing, certification and authentication.  If you do this for your
> key you will notice that there is no E in it.

Yes, you're right. I've requestet the public key from this guy again:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>

mQENAzzNVBsAAAEIALGAXwx4mTqrSI15itb0mtSwRG3msRP41KK3zCQ//xSf4zWN
[...]
aCMiZak=
=kA+s
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

When I try to import it:

% gpg --import <publickey
Secure memory is not locked into core
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
gpg: key 33EAF336: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1

Well what does that mean? What is this user ID about? Do I have to use 
PGP instead of GPG? Why? I don't understand this at all. B-)

-- 
So long... Fuzz