[Nottingham] signing a key

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 13/05/12 15:25, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 13/05/12 15:10, Jason Irwin wrote:
>> Once I get a signed key back from someone as an .asc - what do I do?
>> I assume I need to import the signed public part into GPA, which I have
>> done.
>> Do I also need to import it into OpenPGP?  When I tried that it refused
>> to update.
> 
> I am not sure is OpenPGP and GPA are using the same pool of keys (I
> think they are) but if you right click the key in OpenPGP you can view
> the signatures.  I can't find anyway of doing that in GPA, nor does
> there appear to be any way to get GPA to refresh the keys.
> 
> So the basic steps seem to be
> 1. Get someone to sign your public key and email it back to you
> 2. Import that signed public key into OpenPGP
> 3. Upload your key from OpenPGP to multiple keyservers.
> 
Hi Jason,

I've explained how to get GPA to show you all your sigs in first e-mail. Yes you are right
if you think about all Openpgp is is a graphical interface to enigmail which in turn makes
calls to pgp/2. GPA Kgpg Kleopatra are all graphical interfaces which deal directly with
gpg/2. These programmes save their configuration files in the same directory as gpg/2. They
read and right to the same key files as gpg/2 does.

There is only one set of files which are saved in our Thunderbird folder and that is the
rule file - if you create one in Openpgp.

I have an idea.

I have four laptops - two I'm prepared to bring along so that people can practice. I've had
about 10 years playing with GPA Kgpg Openpgp.

The big issue is how people send you your newly signed key. They may export to a file - and
leave the naming of it as read - they may then attach it - or they my cut and paste. Each
requires you to do something a little different to import your key.

David

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