#608 Unable to retrieve key from keybase.io keyserver

[Sumana Harihareswara]

I start an email in Thunderbird and put an email address (in this case, Jacob Kaplan-Moss's address in jacobian.org, just as an example, since his key is available via Keybase at https://keybase.io/jacobian) in the To: field. Then I go to the Enigmail dropdown menu and choose Key Management. In that dialog window, I choose the Keyserver dialog and choose Search for Keys.

If I search for "jacobian.org" and choose keys.gnupg.net as the keyserver, then the result comes back quickly and properly. But whether I type "jacobian.org" or his key fingerprint in the "search for key" box, if I choose "keybase.io" as my keyserver, then the "Download OpenPGP Keys" search runs for over a minute (the progress bar moving continuously) and then comes back the Enigmail Alert: "We are sorry, could not find any key that would match the specified search criteria."

I'm running Enigmail version 1.9.2 (20160425-1440) & "Using gpg executable /usr/bin/gpg2 to encrypt and decrypt" according to About Enigmail.

$ gpg2 --version 
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22
libgcrypt 1.5.3

Am happy to include log output if you say I should. Am attaching console output below.

Followup to bug #410; potentially also discussed in https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/327 .

[Patrick Brunschwig]

You cannot use keybase.io like any other keyserver, as it does not support the hkp protocol. You have to use the keybase server from the dropdwon list (keybase://keybase.io)

[Marcel Ackermann (DreamFlasher)]

Doesn't work for me. I tried keybase://keybase.io as keyserver, but it doesn't work. I have one contact to test with, I wasn't able to find his public key (which he has on his public keybase.io profile) with the search for his email nor his keybase username.

[Patrick Brunschwig]

I just tried this myself and found that support for keybase in Enigmail was completely broken. I fixed it now for the next release.

I also added a bit of heuristics: if keyserver is keybase.io, then Enigmail will automatically switch to the keybase protocol.

[Marcel Ackermann (DreamFlasher)]

Thank you! Is there an ETA for 2.0?