[aklug] Re: Signing with GPG

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

> 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!
>
>
> -- 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
>
> iEYEARECAAYFAknvrjcACgkQXK/vGhypreIJUgCfR1PuJ/7tULxOEnpW55QuIXWG
> UWgAn2JC/Rmc6giEbY9ikGmHOfsunqyn
> =6usO
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
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I'm a programmer, not a sys admin. I'm not sure I'm psychologically
balanced (unbalanced?) enough to be a sys admin.

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Christopher Howard
http://indicium.us
http://theologia.indicium.us
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