[Nottingham] key-signing - what next

david at gbenet.com david at gbenet.com
Thu May 10 20:08:25 UTC 2012


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On 05/09/2012 05:04 PM, Martin wrote:
> On 09/05/12 07:55, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> Hi All,
> 
>> It was my birthday anyhow:
> 
> Happy Birthday! Whenever it was exactly ;-) You should have put a call out for a few
> beers :-)
> 
> 
> And thanks for some good details below. Do you mind if I add them to the NLUG website?
> 
> (Which reminds me... Must catch up with some signing...)
> 
> Cheers, Martin
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Good idea and good to demonstrate, but the unwary should never enter their passphrase
> onto unknown hardware...
> 
> Will also be interesting to see which distro you eventually settle upon :-)
> 
> 
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You an buy me a beer when we next meet up :)

David

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