Re: kmail doesn t sign/encrypt e-mails, broken pipe

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 13:29, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:53:27 +0100, Erik Wasser said:
> > What does that 'Unusable public key' mean in this case?
>
> You used a key not capable of encryption or expired or without a
> valid user ID.  --debug 64 gives more more detailed info.

% gpg --debug 64 -e -r [email protected] hosts
Secure memory is not locked into core
gpg: NOTE: no default option file `/home/fuzz/.gnupg/options'
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
gpg: DBG: finish_lookup: checking key 33EAF336 (one)(req_usage=0)
gpg: DBG:       using key 33EAF336
gpg: DBG: finish_lookup: checking key C59447D8 (one)(req_usage=0)
gpg: DBG:       using key C59447D8
gpg: DBG: finish_lookup: checking key 33EAF336 (one)(req_usage=0)
gpg: DBG:       using key 33EAF336
gpg: DBG: cache_user_id: already in cache
gpg: DBG: finish_lookup: checking key 45C922BF (one)(req_usage=0)
gpg: DBG:       using key 45C922BF
gpg: DBG: finish_lookup: checking key 33EAF336 (all)(req_usage=2)
gpg: DBG:       no suitable subkeys found - trying primary
gpg: DBG:       primary key not valid
gpg: DBG:       no suitable key found -  giving up
gpg: [email protected]: skipped: Unusable public key
gpg: hosts: encryption failed: Unusable public key
secmem usage: 1344/32768 bytes in 2 blocks

Okay the key is unusable. So far so bad. B-)

> Check the 
> output of gpg --check-sigs someone.

pub   2048R/33EAF336 2002-04-29 Real Name <[email protected]>
sig!         36F3EA33 2002-04-29   [User id not found]

Stupid question (again): what does *that* mean?

Thanks for the support.

-- 
So long... Fuzz