Hi,
I'm trying to use Cygwin dirmngr to use "Tor Browser for Windows".:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-June/060736.html
I got as far as finding a way to get it working by starting "Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe" then dirmngr is working through Tor. Strangely, if I click "Tor Browser\Start Tor Browser" it does not work; dirmngr failed at the following step:
$ dirmngr --homedir ~/try --use-tor -vvv --debug-all --server
OK Dirmngr 2.2.8-unknown at your service KS_GET -- 0x6C6ACD6417B3ACB1 dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: chan_3 <- KS_GET -- 0x6C6ACD6417B3ACB1 dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: dns: libdns initialized (tor mode) dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: dns: getsrv(_pgpkey-https._tcp.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net): Server indicated a failure dirmngr[6496.0]: command 'KS_GET' failed: Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source> dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: chan_3 -> ERR 219 Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source> ERR 219 Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source>
It looks like dirmngr can't connect to tor when tor is started by doing "Tor Browser\Browser\firefox.exe".
Given the above I have some questions: 1) Any idea why dirmngr can't connect to Tor when started the usual way? 2) What are the difference between starting "tor.exe" and "firefox.exe"?
Any help/hints is appriciated.