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Thomas

04 Jul, 2012 01:50 PM

Still cannot import another's public key. They don't have it on a keyserver either. Tried dragging and dropping the .txt file into the GPG Keychain Access as well as trying to Import the file itself.

I read the previous discussions and I downloaded the GPGTools_Installer-trunk.dmg, but that didn't work either.

Mac OS X 10.7.2

Thanks for any help.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 04 Jul, 2012 03:29 PM

   

   Hi Thomas,

   could you please post the text file here?
   If we can have a look at it, we'll be able to tell you what might be going wrong.
   Also, try to rename it to .asc and use the import option from GPG Keychain Access again.

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2. 2 Posted by Thomas on 04 Jul, 2012 09:57 PM

   

   Thank you. I tried to change the extension and that didn't work.

   Thank you very much.

   • publickey.txt 6.95 KB
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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Luke Le on 05 Jul, 2012 08:06 AM

   

   Hi Thomas,

   for some reason this public key file is corrupted and can't be imported by gpg.
   Could you try to export it again and see if it works after that.
   Unfortunately GPG Keychain Access doesn't show that an error occured in this case.
   We'll have to fix that.

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4. 4 Posted by Michael Martin on 05 Jul, 2012 08:18 AM

   

   At least we're both not crazy. Thank you.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Steve on 05 Jul, 2012 10:02 AM

   

   Hey Thomas / Michael,

   I've created a ticket, so that we throw an error msg when a key import fails due to corrupt keys.

   You can subscribe to the ticket if you want to be notified of changes:
   http://gpgtools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/73378/tickets/30-libmacg...

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6. Steve closed this discussion on 05 Jul, 2012 10:02 AM.