[Nottingham] signing a key

david at gbenet.com david at gbenet.com
Sun May 13 18:25:05 UTC 2012


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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.
> 
And another thing neither Keith or Martin has signed my bloody key!!!

David :)


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