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echo: public_keys
to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-06-27 21:36:00
subject: updating keys..

Hello Wilfred!

** On Saturday 27.06.20 - 11:52, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> uid August Abolins 

 AA>> sig  sig3  5789589B 2020-01-02 __ 2024-12-31 [selfsig]

 AA>> sig  sig2  56CDF35B 2020-01-03 __ __ Tommi Koivula 

 AA>> sig  sig3  2A6F822A 2020-01-03 __ __ Tommi Koivula
 AA>> 

 WvV> Hmm, double spacing on the inserted part?

I just copy-pasted as it was reported to me pgp.key-server.io online (at  
their web interface.  It is not the double-space problem I was having with  
signed messsages here.


 AA>> Does that mean that Tommi signed my key?

 WvV> Looks like it.

 AA>> If so, I should probably have a copy of Tommi's public key submission.

 WvV> I think you already do, because otherwise it wouldn't have shown Tommi's
 WvV> name and email adres, but something like [unknown], I think.


The report above is what I see at pgp.key-server.io

Locally, I get this:





 AA>> Is this simply accomplished with a refresh from a server?

 AA>> I tried:

 C:\>>> gpg --refresh-keys --keyserver pgp.key-server.io
 AA>> gpg: refreshing 12 keys from hkp://pgp.key-server.io
 AA>> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No keyserver available

 WvV> Try:

 WvV> # gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --keyserver-options
 WvV> no-honor-keyserver-url --refresh-keys koivula

 WvV> Or replace the --refresh-keys with --recv-keys, to get/update all
 WvV> Tommi's keys from the key server...

 AA>> But.. I *can* visit the server and search via the web interface, no
 AA>> problem.

 WvV> Maybe it doesn't use the hkp: but http: protocol?

 AA>> What servers is everybody else using that prove to be more reliable?

 WvV> I don't use them very often, so I wouldn't know about reliability...

 AA>> If, I can't use the refresh function, do I just delete my local copies
 AA>> of Tommi's keys, and just look for newer ones of his 56CDF35B and
 AA>> 2A6F822A?

 WvV> You don't have to delete them first, to import an updated version...

 WvV> Bye, Wilfred.

 WvV> -+- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
 WvV>  + Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)


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* Origin: Key ID = 0x5789589B (2:221/1.58)

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