Re: No gpg keyservers available on GuixSD out-of-the-box

[Ni* <niasterisk@grrlz.net>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
>
>> On 2016-01-01 19:21, swedebugia@riseup.net wrote:
>>> On 2015-12-30 22:16, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>>>> Which version of GnuPG is it, per “gpg2 --version”?
>>> ~$ gpg2 --version
>>> gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.10
>>> libgcrypt 1.6.3
>>
>> I now tested with the 2.0 version and the result was that it only
>> worked when specifying the keyserver (pgp.mit.edu) on the commandline.
>>
>> So to sum it up (i'm on an i686 platform):
>> (with default config-files)
>> gpg 2.1.10 - keyservers are not reachable at all
>> gpg 2.0.29 - keyservers are only reachable when using --keyserver
>> URL-to-keyserver on the commandline omplains about wrong keyserver URI
>> when not specifying --keyserver URL-to-keyserver).
>
> I confirm that 2.1 behaves differently:
>
> $ $(guix build gnupg-2.1)/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3D9AEBB5
> gpg: key "3D9AEBB5 #EA52ECF4" not found
> gpg: (check argument of option '--hidden-encrypt-to')
> $ $(guix build gnupg-2.0)/bin/gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3D9AEBB5
> gpg: requesting key 3D9AEBB5 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
> gpg: key 3D9AEBB5: "Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>" not changed
> gpg:       Nombro traktita entute: 1
> gpg:                   neŝanĝitaj: 1
>
> I would suggest reaching out to the GnuPG mailing lists.
>
> Ludo’.
>

Hi,

I thought I figured out my mistake from 12 months ago when GnuPG broke
(and I faded out using it), the question here got me motivated to look
into 2.1 issues again.

I got it to the point where it works again, meaning searching for
keys (although I am unsure wether it uses hkp or hkps protocol), etc.

~/.gnupg$ tree
.
├── crls.d
│   └── DIR.txt
├── dirmngr.conf
├── gpg-agent.conf
├── gpg.conf
├── openpgp-revocs.d

├── private-keys-v1.d

├── pubring.kbx
├── pubring.kbx~
├── random_seed
├── S.dirmngr
├── S.gpg-agent
└── trustdb.gpg

What I did was start from scratch with GnuPG 2.1:

cat gpg.conf 
keyserver-options no-honor-keyserver-url include-revoked
fixed-list-mode
keyid-format 0xlong
personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224
default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 BZIP2 ZLIB ZIP Uncompressed
use-agent
verify-options show-uid-validity
list-options show-uid-validity
cert-digest-algo SHA512
no-comments
with-fingerprint
no-emit-version

cat dirmngr.conf 
keyserver hkp://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
hkp-cacert /home/myusername/certificates/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem

cat gpg-agent.conf 
pinentry-program /home/myusername/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-curses
default-cache-ttl 86400


I noticed that gpg-agent needs at least those 2 entries to work with.

Related question:
is it intentional that there's no pinentry-gtk and pinentry-qt in Guix?


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