[Nottingham] signing a key

david at gbenet.com david at gbenet.com
Sun May 13 18:36:13 UTC 2012


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On 13/05/12 19:31, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 13/05/12 19:09, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> (1) You have got back our signed key - either it's within the e-mail so when you decrypt the
>> message you see it straight away - all you have to do is within Openpgp's main menu is
>> import the sender's key - it will import and update your keyring.
> "Sender's key"?  You mean my signed key, don't you?

Yes your key that has been signed
> 
>> In GPA click on the dark circle - show key details - then highlight then click on signatures
>> - you will get a list of all who signed your key.
> I don't have this option available to me, which was one thing that threw
> me.  There is no button, right-click or anything to view signatures in
> GPA for me.  The command line works fine though.

Well in Openpgp's key management you can highlight any key - then right click and you getan
option to see the signatures on that key.
> 
>> Remember you only need to import once - all programmes GPA Openpgp read the same file
> That's what I thought - which is why I was confused when OpenPGP and GPA
> seemed to disagree
> 
> It's all sorted now.  Import my signed public key that was sent to me,
> upload a few times.  Done.
> 

Easy really :)

David

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