[Nottingham] key-signing - what next

[James Moore]

On 09/05/2012 07:55, david at gbenet.com wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> It was my birthday anyhow:
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> So the question is "I've got someone's key I've signed it - so how do I get it back to them?"
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> The answer is - export to a file - which saves the public key you have signed to a file on
> your hard disk - if like me you have a lot of keys to sign and save you can save as Martin
> TJ Jason.
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> Then you start your mail app and then you write an email to each recipient adding an
> attachment their key. Then you can digitally sign and encrypt to that recipients public key.
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> You can do the same thing with your public key if users are not able to find it on a key
> server - you export to file then start an email add an attachment (your public key) and sign
> and send.
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> With openpgp - it has a function to import keys from a file attachment - or you can use a
> programme like KGPG GPA Kleopatra - you open the file with a common editor select all the
> txt and copy - then open the respective programme and open its editor and then paste and
> then import - this will update your public key.
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> Once you have done this a few times (how ever many signed your key) you can  upload it to a
> public key server - all the above programmes will upload a highlighted public key to a key
> server as long as you have internet access :)
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> A little tip - if you have installed Linux for the first time then you will want to run this
> command in a terminal gpg2 -k this will create the hidden folder .gnupg and will create 3
> txt files as defaults.
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> We ought to bring a Linux laptop so people can have a go at doing all this stuff.
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> <snip>
Certainly doable. I have a virtualbox appliance I can clone and make 
available. Question though: does gpg2 come with a stock OpenSuSE 
11.4/KDE install?