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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: weedtender on September 05, 2013, 08:53 pm

Title: tails pgp wrong format?
Post by: weedtender on September 05, 2013, 08:53 pm

when i go to other keys
import file
when i open the file
says wrong format
will not let me import the sellers public key


can someone shed light on this for me greatly appreciated

Title: Re: tails pgp wrong format?
Post by: MrJoshua on September 05, 2013, 09:08 pm

I had this problem as well. Assuming you're using Seahorse, the default PGP client for Tails, just copy the vendors public key, open up Seahorse (the clipboard on the upper-right), go to Manage Keys > Other Keys > and paste your key right in there. Control + V and you're done.

Title: Re: tails pgp wrong format?
Post by: weedtender on September 05, 2013, 11:29 pm

when i paste key it says invalid format.

Title: Re: tails pgp wrong format?
Post by: Nightcrawler on September 05, 2013, 11:53 pm

Quote from: weedtender on September 05, 2013, 11:29 pm

when i paste key it says invalid format.

Check the key carefully. It MUST have five dashes both before and after BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK and the END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK.

If even one of those dashes is missing, the key will fail to import.  This alone is the case of 99.99% of key import failures.

Nightcrawler
4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22 Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>
PGP Key: http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B (IndyMedia .onion keyserver)
PGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090     (Silk Road Forums PGP Key Link)
PGP Key Fingerprint = 83F8 CAF8 7B73 C3C7 8D07  B66B AFC8 CE71 D9AF D2F0

Title: Re: tails pgp wrong format?
Post by: weedtender on September 06, 2013, 12:28 am

thanks i had checked the public key. I got it to work once but now it wont work.