Fwd: using gnupg with a secure ldap (ldaps) keyserver

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:37:19PM -0700, Sanchez the Cactus wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use gnupg to send my key to my company's keyserver.  The 
> > URL
> > scheme for the keyserver is ldaps://ldap.company.com:636/ou=pgp
> > keys,dc=company,dc=com.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get 
> > gpg to
> > recognize this url schema and connect successfully.  If I set the 
> > keyserver
> > option to be that url, i get:
> > 
> >  unable to execute program "gpgkeys_ldaps": No such file or directory
> > gpg: no handler for keyserver scheme "ldaps"
> > 
> > if i change it to simply be ldap instead of ldaps, I get: 
> > gpgkeys: internal LDAP bind error: Can't contact LDAP server
> > gpg: keyserver internal error
> > 
> > 
> > is there a way to get this working?  It seems (according to
> > google) like i should be able to get it working with cvs/unstable
> > gnupg, but that doesn't work either...

GnuPG 1.3.6 (or the CVS version) can do ldaps, but it requires that
you have OpenLDAP set up to do ldaps.  OpenLDAP only does ldaps if you
have OpenSSL installed.

David