verifying of my own messages fails

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:27, bernhard.kleine at gmx.net said:

> gpg -verify test2
> gpg: der Unterschlüssel 2A35709F wird anstelle des Hauptschlüssels
> 6C1D9C2A verwendet (subkey used instead of the main key)
> gpg: ify: übersprungen: Öffentlicher Schlüssel nicht gefunden (ify:

What you are doing is

   gpg -v -e -r ify test2

That is encrypt the file test2 for he recipient "ify".  IF you want to
check a signature, use

   gpg --verfiy foo.sig

Note the double dash.  BTW to get English message, you can do this

   LANG=C gpg .....

> keyservers are hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 and ldap://keyserver.pgp.com

Do not use these keyservers: They are broken.  Use keys.gnupg.net,
another round-robin keyserver address or use one specific SKS server.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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