[aklug] Re: Signing with GPG

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Shane R. Spencer wrote:

> 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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No. I figured it might be best to figure out what I'm doing first.

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Christopher Howard
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