Evolution and PGP

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vixxo
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se unió: 10/26/2013

Hi guys, I'm trying to encrypt my mails with PGP but I don't know why Evolution doesn't attach the public key .asc file to signed mails )only a .sig file is present).

Am i doing something wrong ?

andrew
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se unió: 04/19/2012

> Hi guys, I'm trying to encrypt my mails with PGP but I don't know why
> Evolution doesn't attach the public key .asc file to signed mails
> )only a .sig file is present).
>
> Am i doing something wrong ?

GPG mail clients don't usually attach the public key by default. The
signature contains a fingerprint of your public key so that a user who
wants to check the signature can download it from a keyserver.

I would suggest uploading your key to one of the GPG keyservers so that
anyone who receives your email can verify its authenticity.

I'm not sure about Evolution but I recall Enigmail for
Thunderbird/IceDove having an option to attach your public key to every
email if you still want this behaviour.

Andrew

vixxo
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se unió: 10/26/2013

Ok I've uploaded my key to a keyserver, how should now notify in my mails that my public key is in that one?

EDIT: I've understood everything by reading this amazing tutorial by FSF https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org

andrew
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se unió: 04/19/2012

> Ok I've uploaded my key to a keyserver, how should now notify in my
> mails that my public key is in that one?

Usually the keyservers synchronise so that your public key will be
replicated across all of the keyservers.

You can test it by choosing a keyserver that you didn't upload it to, to
see if it exists. For example, in your terminal application write:

$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x8D8AEBF1
gpg: requesting key 8D8AEBF1 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
gpg: key 8D8AEBF1: "Trisquel GNU/Linux (Trisquel GNU/Linux signing key)
<name at domain>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1

It will alert you if the key isn't on the keyserver.

Andrew