gpg: public key not found

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:30:20AM -0800, David.A.Gustafson at nws02.usace.army.mil wrote:
> gpg: Signature made Thu Jan 01 11:14:08 2004 PST using DSA key ID 4B96A8C5
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

The key is available through the public keyserver network.  One way to
get it is to do a manual key receive:

gpg --keyserver=x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4B96A8C5

Another is to configure gpg to do automatic key retrievals by adding
these lines to its config file (substitute whatever keyserver you like):

keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

Then it would automatically fetch the key when you do the gpg --verify.

Finally, if your system is not on a network, you can get the key via a
webbrowser by fetching this URL:

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4B96A8C5

You can then import the returned text into the appropriate system.

..wayne..