[aklug] Re: Signing with GPG

Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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.
>
Bah.. that's not how a real admin does things!

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-- Desc: OpenPGP digital signature

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

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Received on Wed Apr 22 15:54:45 2009