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support for HKPS protocol?

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Carl Harris

25 Jul, 2012 06:52 PM

Environment:

• Software name and version:
• OS X version: 10.7.4
• GPGTools Installer date: 20120318

What steps will reproduce the problem? Please be as specific as possible.

1. Configure an HKPS keyserver using either GPGPreferences or by editing .gnupg/gpg.conf keyserver hkps://keyserver.cns.vt.edu
   keyserver-options ca-cert-file=/path/to/CA/cert/file

2. Attempt to search for a key at the shell prompt: gpg2 --search-keys [email blocked]

**What do you expect to see?

gpg: searching for "[email blocked]" from hkps server keyserver.cns.vt.edu
(1) Jeffrey I. Schiller [email blocked]

  1024 bit DSA key C8D93E50, created: 1997-09-26

(2) Jeffrey I. Schiller [email blocked]

Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>
  1024 bit DSA key F414952B, created: 1997-06-17

(3) Jeffrey I. Schiller [email blocked]

  1024 bit RSA key 0DBF906D, created: 1994-08-27

(4) Old Jeffrey I. Schiller

Jeffrey I. Schiller <[email blocked]>

... ETC

** What do you see instead?

gpg: searching for "[email blocked]" from hkps server keyserver.cns.vt.edu
gpgkeys: HTTP search error 1: unsupported protocol
gpg: key "[email blocked]" not found on keyserver
gpg: keyserver internal error
gpg: keyserver search failed: Keyserver error

Using a plain old HKP server works fine.

The gnupg and gnupg2 macports both support HKPS. It would be nice if this support was included in GPGTools. I thought it was supported previously...

1. Steve closed this discussion on 25 Nov, 2014 11:40 AM.

2. Steve re-opened this discussion on 25 Nov, 2014 11:40 AM

3. Support Staff 1 Posted by Steve on 25 Nov, 2014 11:43 AM

   

   Hi Carl,

   we are currently working on this. hkps support should already be working. But there's still some work to be done.

   We'll let you know once this is fully implemented.

   All the best,
   steve

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4. Steve closed this discussion on 25 Nov, 2014 11:43 AM.

5. Steve closed this discussion on 10 May, 2020 07:37 PM.