Re: thunderbird/enigmail key fetch with polipo + tor

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:41:56PM -0700, Taka Khumbartha wrote:
> 
> i am trying to fetch PGP keys from a keyserver using standard hkp protocol.  
> i have thunderbird configured to use tor and polipo.  enigmail has a setting 
> "extensions.enigmail.respectHttpProxy".  if this setting is "true", i can't 
> fetch keys; if it is "false", all works as expected (at the price of my 
> anonymity).
> 
> i've started a similar thread in the enigmail forums: 
> http://mozilla-enigmail.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=192 .  there, i've been 
> told that hkp protocol will work over an http proxy.  can anyone verify this 
> behavior and possibly track down a solution?
> 
> if it's of any use, i am actually using PortableThunderbird 1.5.0.8 and the 
> Polipo win32 binary.  however, i might assume this is irrelevant.

I have the same problem using straight command-line gnupg 1.4.5 and
polipo 0.9.10 on Debian GNU/Linux.  Until now I've just assumed it
was an error on my part (I'm not a heavy GnuPG user).  I don't use
tor or any other backends.  The keyserver I've tested was
hkp://subkeys.pgp.net.

-ukh

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