[nycbug-talk] Root certificates on OS X...

[Scott Robbins]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 04:25:19AM -0400, Queco Jones wrote:


> 
> The reason I was interested in it is because when I get an email from
> my friend, Mail.app displays a message saying that it's "unable to
> verify message signature."
> 
> I have GPG and the GPGMail plug-in installed, but my friend says that
> it won't work until I get the root certificate installed.  My question
> is, can anybody point me to documentation that explains just how to go
> about doing this?

Don't know about Mac mail, but in mutt, at least, it simply means you
haven't downloaded their key, and given it a trust level.

In other words, you see in my sig that gpg --recv-keys thingie.
If you type what I have written there, my key will be downloaded.  
It's been awhile, so I don't remember off the top of my head if it'll
then be verifiable--you might have to do gpg edit-key scott and choose a
trust level. 

So, unless Mac's mail is quite different, your friend may be mistaken or
there might be some sort of misunderstanding.  The whole good signature
thing is from your own $HOME/.gnupg file.

Hope this helps, unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding your question.
:)  [1]


[1] Which I didn't actually answer--I answered the implied question of
verifying sigs.   :)



-- 

Scott 

PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6

Giles: Might I have a word? 
Buffy: Have a sentence even. 

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