[aklug] Re: Signing with GPG

Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. I'm finally getting around to figuring out PGP with GPG. (Did I say
> that right?) It all seems really snazzy but I've never worked with it
> before.
>
> I created my key with GPG (correctly, I hope) Now I want to set up Alpine
> to allow me to sign my messages. I think I can do that on my own following
> online tutorials, but I wanted to make sure I understand the fundamental
> process here.
>
> Basically, signing (not encrypting) an e-mail message is just running
> "gpg -sb" on the e-mail, and then including the .gpg signature file as an
> attachment, right? And then I have to make my public key available
> somewhere (like on my website) so that people can verify that it is a
> valid signature, right?
>
Did you publish your key yet?

-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
-- File: signature.asc
-- Desc: OpenPGP digital signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAknvrJEACgkQXK/vGhypreKj1ACfStA0aWeiJ3MmhsVqxVpE0KE0
+lUAoK5Otwp24p311btkHsNjhCA44bUy
=UFkc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Received on Wed Apr 22 15:47:44 2009