mutt and clear-signing

Ryan Smith GTC at riseup.net
Wed Jul 3 05:30:59 UTC 2019


GPG probably needs no key servers as users can directly exchange keys in
mutt.

On 7/3/2019 2:20 AM, mutt at raf.org wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:48:21PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using mutt v.1.12.0 on freebsd-current with gpgme. In my config, mutt will
>>> verify clearsigned gpg sigs if the public key is on the gpg keyring.
>>>
>>> But if the key is unknown, mutt will say the key is unknown, and this is
>>> normal and expected.
>>>
>>> What I want to happen is, if the key is unknown i'd like mutt to prompt
>>> something like "get key y/n" or even automatically fetch the key and add
>>> it to the keyring if the public key is valid.
>> You can do this by configuring gnupg itself to do it.  You need to
>> tell gnupg what key server to use (you probably already did that), and
>> then you need to add the option auto-key-retrieve in gnupg.conf.
>>
>> -- 
>> Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
>> -=-=-=-=-
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> be warned though that the SKS network (where you might get keys from)
> has recently been attacked by the poisoning of some high profile keys
> that, if fetched and imported, will break your gnupg installation.
>
> see the following for more information and advice:
>
>   https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f
>


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