[buug] GPG Keysigning

Joseph Zitt jzitt at josephzitt.com
Thu Sep 19 21:43:15 PDT 2002


OK, I've now signed and resent the three keys I received at the meeting.
Thanks for the help!

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:20:33 -0700
Aaron T Porter <atporter at primate.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:50:01PM -0700, Joseph Zitt wrote:
>  
> > I hope to come to this, and have been reading the gpg-party.html
> > document. It says to upload the key to a keyserver, but I'm not
> > clear as to the address of the appropriate keyserver. And should I
> > email the fingerprint to someone, or just physically bring it with
> > me?
> 
> 	My .gnupg/options file has the line:
> keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
> 
> 	So after having made my key, I do:
> $ gpg --list-secret 
> /home/atporter/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> ---------------------------------
> sec  1024D/06AA8E37 2002-08-09 Aaron T Porter <atporter at primate.net>
> ssb  2048g/E03C3ABA 2002-08-09
> 
> 	Which shows me that my keyID is "06AA8E37". So then I do this to
> send the key to the keyserver.
> 
> $ gpg --send-keys 06AA8E37
> 
> 	You should send your key to the keyserver, and then take the
> fingerprint. You *must* bring a copy of your fingerprint with you (if
> you're really nice, a copy for everyone that you expect to sign your
> key) but in a pinch pen & paper work too. You get your fingerprint by
> doing this, you should bring/copy both the "pub" line and the "Key
> fingerprint" line.
> 
> $ gpg --fingerprint 06AA8E37
> pub  1024D/06AA8E37 2002-08-09 Aaron T Porter <atporter at primate.net>
>      Key fingerprint = 3963 8381 4B94 BD51 6F29  80E5 64B0 7250 06AA
>      8E37
> sub  2048g/E03C3ABA 2002-08-09
> 
> 
> 	When you get home, you'll want to pull down all the keys that
> 	you
> are planning to sign:
> 
> $ gpg --recv-key 06AA8E37
> 
> 	Then you'll do a --fingerprint and double check the values
> 	against
> the ones you were shown at the meeting. If they match, you can go
> ahead and sign the key:
> 
> $ gpg --edit 06AA8E37
> 
> pub  1024D/06AA8E37  created: 2002-08-09 expires: never      trust:
> u/u sub  2048g/E03C3ABA  created: 2002-08-09 expires: never
> (1). Aaron T Porter <atporter at primate.net>
> 
> Command> sign
> 
> <deleted>
> 
> Command> save
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