msva refuses to use .onion keyserver
Tails is configured to use Indymedia's keyserver as a Tor hidden service (@hkp://2eghzlv2wwcq7u7y.onion@), both in @gpg.conf@ and in @monkeysphere.conf@.
Every other gpg-powered software works nicely with this, but msva-perl thinks it's clever enough to judge whether our GnuPG settings are valid or not.
While I do like strict configuration checking, unfortunately, msva-perl is slightly less clever than it thinks, and since the nice @$RE{net}{domain}@ does not know about .onion, msva thinks our valid settings are wrong and falls back to an unencrypted connection to its default keyserver (hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net), while we asked for the end-to-end encryption provided by Tor hidden services. (This kind of fallback is, IMHO, an issue by itself, but let's stay focused.)
.xsession-errors
says:
Not a valid keyserver (from gpg config /home/amnesia/.gnupg/gpg.conf):
hkp://2eghzlv2wwcq7u7y.onion
(from redmine: created on 2011-09-14, closed on 2011-10-09)