[Nottingham] key-signing - what next - by the way

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 05/10/2012 07:55 AM, James Moore wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 08:22, david at gbenet.com wrote:
> On 09/05/12 08:10, James Moore wrote:
>>>> On 09/05/2012 07:55, david at gbenet.com wrote:
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>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> It was my birthday anyhow:
>>>>>
>>>>> So the question is "I've got someone's key I've signed it - so how do I get it back to
>>>>> them?"
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 :)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> We ought to bring a Linux laptop so people can have a go at doing all this stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> <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?
>>>>
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> By the way,
> 
> I tried to install 32 and 64 bit Debian but the iso were all corrupted that I downloaded -
> failed to install GRUB boot loader - I tried LUbuntu but the gpg-agen failed to run or even
> recognize I had a public key. So I am back to opensuse 11.4 with LXDE. Which is great!!
> 
> I have Fedora 16 with LXDE on another laptop - so when I put the screws back in another -
> what shall I put on it? Opensuse 12 with KDE?
> 
> David
> 
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> kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect and complete even at the moment of death. No
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> I think I've said it before on another thread (it might have been slashdot), OpenSuSE
> releases of the x.1 or x.2 persuasion have been complete roadkill in my experience. x.4 is
> pretty stable and the hardware support is practically faultless.
> 
> As for your Grub problem; I've come across something like this and solved by booting to an
> overlay program to completely wipe the partition table - some COTS systems have hidden
> partitions and recovery options as part of a custom bootloader loaded into the MBR; how they
> managed this with Windows wanting the MBR is a mystery to me. But wiping the PT and zeroing
> the MBR prior to Linux installation usually fixes it.
> 
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Hello James,

I discovered that opensuse will not install on a bare drive i.e. no partition. I used to use
Paragon to delete partitions etc. but have gone back to using Dfsee am a registered user and
it's got tools to erase your MBR copy MBR make a bootable USB and generally play around
another good set of tools are linux recovery cd - but you can't mount partitions and recover
data or back up data with Dfsee or the Linu recovery CD.

I'm currently on my spare Fedora 16 32 bit laptop. Opensuse locked me out as a user - only
root remained. Also my .gnupg files got corrupted - but appear to be working fine on Fedora.
I tried to install Mandriva but got stuck in a repetitive loop so tossed the CD in the bin
:) now waiting for the end of format so I can install opensuse lxde again.

I at first thought that I'd downloaded a virus (pretty remote I know) but why could I be
logged out? I copied files as root saving them and deleted "david" and created an account
called "seadog" but as soon as I copied over my e-mails and my .gnupg files - I logged out
and was unable to log back in as seadog. In Openpgp it was claiming that it could not sign
with a sub-key that had expired - wow! In fact I could not sign or decrypt any mail!!

But on Fedora-16 no probs. Oh well - I will figure out what's going on when I reinstall
opensuse.

David

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