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Re: [LUG] Using GPG, receiving keys from Symantec keyserver

 

On Monday, 17 December 2018 14:59:27 GMT Henry Bremridge wrote:
> 
> Any ideas gratefully received

You may need to specify a username and password in the LDAP bind, but you 
should be able to establish this using standard LDAP tools like ldapsearch

https://linux.die.net/man/1/ldapsearch

Afraid last place that used this was locked down so I extracted the keys we 
needed using the web interface of SEM, signed them and shared them with those 
who needed them (fail on so many levels but they didn't want them on public 
key servers).

I did have a colleague with some experience of the product, happy to put him 
in touch, but guessing you probably don't have access to the admin interface 
to figure it out.

Horrible product, and nearly all deployments I've saw made PGP worse by hiding 
details from the users. It has that ultimately failing of so much Enterprise 
software in that it tries to solve every possible configuration (of PGP email) 
an Enterprise may request, and in so doing allows them to request 
configurations that make no sense from a security perspective, but are 
fiendishly hard to understand, whilst adding a whole bunch of complexity. SEM 
is why Jonny still can't encrypt (unless he switches to WhatsApp).

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