[Gpg4win-users-en] Checking certificates (was unknown key)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Bill,

On Monday 24 June 2013 at 22:46:26, eMyListsDDg wrote:
> gpg2.exe --check-sigs
>
> is returning this:
>    "3 signatures not checked due to missings keys"

your case is different to Bob's.



> when i updated to win7 i copied the gnupg dir of files to gnupg dir.
>
> trusted keys are found, but with this error message do i need to "certify"
> the keys again or what?

You are trying to verify the signatures on your certificate and are missing 
some certificates from people that have singed your certificate. 
This is not a problem, usually. You can just find out which certs it is 
missing and try to fetch them. Try --list-sigs and --recv-keys.


From the Gnupg Manual: 
http://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html
--list-keys
  List all keys from the public keyrings, or just the keys given on the 
command line.
--list-sigs
  Same as --list-keys, but the signatures are listed too.
--check-sigs
  Same as --list-sigs, but the signatures are verified.


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