[Enigmail] help with how to use enigmail correctly

[John Clizbe]

Ringo Kamens wrote:
> No, but if somebody wants to send you an encrypted email then they will
> need your public key. Upload your key to pgp.mit.edu and then link to
> your key in your signature. Also, if you upload your key to the
> keyservers, then people can automatically download it from within their
> mail client.

Really BAD choice of keyserver.

pgp.mit.edu works fine for older keys. It runs the PGP Key Server (pks). PKS
does not handle V4 key features well. Notable examples of mangled features
are multiple subkeys, a revoked subkey (tag 0x28), duplicate keyids, direct
key signatures (tag 0x1F), revocation signatures on userids (tag 0x30), or
photo IDs. There is also no development or maintenance being done on the pks
platform.

PKS is neither RFC 2440 nor RFC 4880 compliant.

Better to use the SKS keyserver pool - pool.sks-keyservers.net.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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