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Thursday, December 22nd 2005, 6:47pm

[KOPETE]: How to enter secret GPG key?

I have GPG installed and working.

I also have Kopete 0.10.3 from the Mandriva 2006.0 x86_64 distribution, running under KDE 3.4.2.

When I try to configure the Cryptography plug-in, it allows me to select the secret key, but when that dialogue opens, it is empty. How am I supposed to enter my secret key?

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Thursday, December 22nd 2005, 7:03pm

RE: [KOPETE]: How to enter secret GPG key?

Do you have kdeutils installed? It includes KGPG, which probably offers a widget to Kopete.
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Thursday, December 22nd 2005, 7:37pm

I didn't -- but I do now (actually, just for the record, it seems that kgpg is a separate RPM from all the other kdeutils, presumably for legal reasons).

Anyway, unfortunately, it makes no difference. Kpgp can see my keys just fine, including the secret key. But the dialogue in Kopete is still empty.

I wonder where Kopete is looking for the key? Obviously, it's not looking in the right place. I have a couple of other GPG-aware programs and they can find the secret key just fine.

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Friday, December 23rd 2005, 11:09pm

Well, after spending quite a bit of time on this, I have been unsuccessful in getting Kopete to find the secret key. I have no idea where it's looking, and I can't find any documentation to tell me either (1) where it's looking; or (2) how to tell it to look somewhere else :-(

I guess I'll just use Psi as my IM client (that had its own issues _using_ the key, although it could find it OK, but those problems are now solved, so at least I have one secure IM client on my new Linux box).