Due to the problem that Spammers are using the email addresses from keyserver for their databases, I created a keypair with my name only (without email address).
Unfortunately enigmail doesn't seem to support this. While trying to select this key to sign an email, the "subkey coudn't be found".
Encrypting to this key is possible, but decrypting neither ("No secret key").
Can I file this as a bug or is there any setting in the preferences to allow the usage of keys without an email address?
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Due to the problem that Spammers are using the email addresses from
keyserver for their databases, I created a keypair with my name only
(without email address).
This is a common misconception. Many people over the years have set up
honeytraps to see if spammers are harvesting addresses from keyservers,
and the results have consistently indicated they are not. I've had one
honeytrap up for eight years with zero spam being delivered to it.
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There was a gpg-agent.conf in my .gpg folder (migrated from a year ago). So the gpg-agent configured there couldn't be startet and the retrieval of my secret key failed.
After I deleted the file everything works now.
You may think about specifieing the error message to give a hint - that seems to be a common error after upgrading linux distributions...
Last edit: TentacleGuy 2016-01-06
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Due to the problem that Spammers are using the email addresses from keyserver for their databases, I created a keypair with my name only (without email address).
Unfortunately enigmail doesn't seem to support this. While trying to select this key to sign an email, the "subkey coudn't be found".
Encrypting to this key is possible, but decrypting neither ("No secret key").
Can I file this as a bug or is there any setting in the preferences to allow the usage of keys without an email address?
This is a common misconception. Many people over the years have set up
honeytraps to see if spammers are harvesting addresses from keyservers,
and the results have consistently indicated they are not. I've had one
honeytrap up for eight years with zero spam being delivered to it.
I'm too dump:
There was a gpg-agent.conf in my .gpg folder (migrated from a year ago). So the gpg-agent configured there couldn't be startet and the retrieval of my secret key failed.
After I deleted the file everything works now.
You may think about specifieing the error message to give a hint - that seems to be a common error after upgrading linux distributions...
Last edit: TentacleGuy 2016-01-06