Mailing List Archive: sending keys

sending keys

Jun 24, 1999, 2:42 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1253 views)

Excuse me for being a bit clueless. I am very new to all this
crytography stuff but I have come to a place where I actually have a
compelling reason to use it.

What am I doing wrong?

[ben@wythe ben]$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.net --send-key ben
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: can't connect to `keyserver.net': Success
[ben@wythe ben]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.net --send-key ben
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: can't connect to `hkp://keyserver.net': Success

Re: sending keys [ In reply to ]

wk at isil

Jun 25, 1999, 12:55 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1250 views)

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Ben Woodard <ben@valinux.com> writes:

> gpg: can't connect to `hkp://keyserver.net': Success
^^^^^^
Ooops

I'm not sure whether I implemented this scheme. Try
--keyserver wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net

--
Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

Re: sending keys [ In reply to ]

ben at valinux

Jun 25, 1999, 8:53 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1230 views)

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Thanks for the help. It didn't seem to work exactly though.

Does this mean that there is a problem with the keyserver or does it
mean that the program is not functioning properly.

Could there be a problem with our firewall? We have a pretty open
firewall but we use IP masquerading so that all internal machines
exist on the internet as one IP addr.

[ben@wythe ben]$ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net --send-keys
gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: can't connect to `wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net': Connection timed out

-ben

Re: sending keys [ In reply to ]

dave.holland at incyte

Jun 25, 1999, 9:10 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1225 views)

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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 08:53:08AM -0700, Ben Woodard wrote:
> gpg: can't connect to `wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net': Connection timed out
> Does this mean that there is a problem with the keyserver or does it
> mean that the program is not functioning properly.

It looks like a problem with the keyserver. Try wwwkeys.pgp.net instead.
That address is an alias for several machines so if it fails, try again
a couple of times.

> Could there be a problem with our firewall? We have a pretty open
> firewall but we use IP masquerading so that all internal machines
> exist on the internet as one IP addr.

I have used gnupg through a masquerading firewall with no problems.

Good luck,

Dave
--
Dave Holland -<>- Systems Administrator -<>- Incyte Genetics, Cambridge, UK