importing other keys

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Micah" == Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> writes:

    Micah> Hello.... I asked someone for their pgp key and they gave me a web page
    Micah> which has two different keys on it. I tried both of them and gpg would not
    Micah> import either. Here are the headers from the keys:

I just got it to work, after having failed the same way Micah did.
Here's what I did:

* I visited the web page with Netscape.

* I dragged the mouse over the key blocks, thus copying the keys into
  the X select buffer (or whatever it's called)

* I used GNU Emacs to visit a new file, and yanked the keys into the
  file's buffer by typing control-Y.

* I saved that file as /tmp/keys, then at the shell, typed `gpg
  --import /tmp/keys'.  This failed with this message

        gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
        gpg: Total number processed: 0

* Then I had a brainstorm: I deleted the trailing whitespace from the
  file by typing, in Emacs,

        M-x replace-regexp RET 
        [ SPC tab ] + $ RET RET

* Then I saved the file, and re-did gpg --import.  This time it
  worked.

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PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5  C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276