[Enigmail] Just another person testing enigmail.

[John Clizbe]

Thomas Wootten wrote:
> Just another person testing enigmail. I've been signing stuff for a
> while now actually, but have yet to see if it works, or figure out how
> to do encryption. So a quick check on the encryption side would be good.

World's simplest encryption test: send yourself an encrypted message.

(This works additionally for testing signing, but you already have that working.)

> In particular, how to go about finding out if someone has a key; is
> there any easy way other than just asking them?

You can search on the keyservers; eg

   jpclizbe at yogi ~
   $ gpg --search-keys tw296
   gpg: searching for "tw296" from hkp server 192.168.0.4
   (1)     Thomas Wootten <tw296 at cam.ac.uk>
             1024 bit DSA key D55ADA54, created: 2008-03-31
   Keys 1-1 of 1 for "tw296".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit >

But it's usually better to ask as the person may have several keys and wish you
to use a particular one.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:   John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10/0x18BB373A
"what's the key to success?"        / "two words: good decisions."
"what's the key to good decisions?" /  "one word: experience."
"how do i get experience?"          / "two words: bad decisions."

"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"

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