opening asc file reports: it's not possibile to decrypt the file

[marco.pallotta]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I saved a public key with seahorse (after having searched it through a public key server). When I double click the asc file (seahorse saves the public key with this extension) nautilus reports:
"it's not possibile to decrypt the file" - "general error"
(I try to translate it as I have an italian installation).

Tested with Hardy Heron x86_64.

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to file a bug report.

When you say you're double-clicking the asc file, do you mean you're trying to decrypt the public key file? I apologise if I'm misunderstanding you - I just want to be clear about this.

[marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta)]

Well, when I double-click the asc fileit's supposed that nautilus launch seahorse to ask me for importing a public key as it should recognize that the asc file I saved is a public key (I have been an opensuse kde user for a long time and under this distro the things ran in this way).
I think the user should never see an error message.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta)]

Sebastien,

* Is this reproducible?

Yes it's.

* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

- open seahorse
- go to trusted keys tab
- select a key
- select, with the right click, the option "export public key...."
- after having saved the key you will see a asc file in the target folder you chosen in the previous step
- double click on the asc file
- you will obtain the error described in the bug comment

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.