problem while sending gpg key to mit key server

[Mustafa Qasim]

On 7/15/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
> Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 7/15/07, *Mikkel L. Ellertson* <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
> > <mailto:mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> >     >
> >     > Hello!
> >     > a) Sorry for top posting. I didn't noticed that but I shall in
> future.
> >     > b) I replace the .ssh and .gnupg directory with the backup i took
> >     after
> >     > just creating the keys and now keys are working well on my system
> but
> >     > still I can't send it to the key server. Is the key server down?
> or
> >     > please guide me how to locally extract the ASCII from my key and
> >     > actually which one is the main key file holding the ASCII among
> the 5
> >     > files in the .gnupg directory?
> >     >
> >     You do not need to know what file the key is in. As long as it is in
> >     your keyring, gpg can extract it. This is what the --extract option
> >     does. The --armor option give you the output in ASCII instead of
> >     binary. The --outfile option will send the output to a file instead
> >     of displaying it in the terminal. (The defaults sends it to the
> >     standard output.)
> >
> >     If the name you used when creating the key was Mustafa, the you
> >     would use:
> >
> >     gpg --export --armor --outfile key.txt Mustafa
> >
> >     This would create a file called key.txt in the current directory
> >     with the ASCII representation of your public key. You can then open
> >     key.txt in a work processor or text editor if you want.
> >
> >     As far as your problems with the key server, you can try using a
> >     different one and see if that helps. Try using
> >     random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> >     <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de> or subkeys.pgp.net
> >     <http://subkeys.pgp.net> and see if that
> >     works better.
> >
> >     Mikkel
> >
> > Sir, thanks for the 2 further key server links but both didn't work :((
> > ....
> >
> > For the first server  random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> > <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de> it says that
> > gpg: can not connect to "random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> > <http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de>" : No such file or directory
> >
> That is strange. What it should do is pick a keyserver at random to
> connect to. It is designed to spread the load among keyservers.
>
> > and for the other  subkeys.pgp.net <http://subkeys.pgp.net> . it reacts
> > like the pgp.mit.edu <http://pgp.mit.edu> ... gives connection time out
> > error after 1 minute ..
> >
> How are you connecting to the Internet? Do you go through a proxy?
> If so, you will need the "--keyserver-options http-proxy=value"
> option or set http_proxy in your shell.
>
> > Y all this is happening with me :( ..... Y i can't submit the key to the
> > key server...
> >
> It sounds like something is blocking the connection from gpg to the
> keyserver.
>
> Were you able to generate the ASCII file of your key?
>
> Mikkel
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Yes! I am behind a proxy but all other work goes fine. I didn't need to set
proxy path for any other work. but Ok our proxy is 10.0.0.1 ... now what is
the syntax to declare proxy?

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Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
Cell: 0321-6614972
URL: http://www.mustu.info
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