[Wylug-help] Using GPG

[Stephen Patterson]

On 14 Jan 06, Mike Goodman (mike at jazzitis.uklinux.net) wrote:
> Will my correspondent also have to have gpg installed and configured?
> Should I export my public key to a file and send them that as an
> attachment? Can I export it directly (from the command line) to their
> email address?

There are a number of mirrored public key servers that you can upload your key
to (though you'd only need to upload it to one of them), and then your
recipients will be able to receive your key from one of these servers if they
don't already have it stored in their gpg/pgp keyring.

The command 'gpg --send-keys key-id' will upload keys matching that key ID
(fingerprint) or email address. You can use the --list-keys and --fingerprint
options to find the unique fingerprint (identifier) for your key.

Your gpg should have a default keyserver set, though you can override that and
set gpg to automatically fetch unknown keys by placing these 2 lines in
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

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