Jason Ausmus schreef: >> -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 20, >> 2005 3:48 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: >> [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature >> >> You're answer was to a different question. > > > Whose answer was to a different question? > > >> Ralph Slooten schrieb: >> >> >>> gpg --gen-key >> >> Wrong. >> >> >>>> can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature? >> >> That's the question. > > > Was the answer Ralph gave not correct? I don't understand what > you're trying to say... > > >> Alexander Skwar >> >> Posting out-of-order makes it easy to follow context. >
Alexander may have been complaining about the top-posting, or maybe the OP was not completely clear in the question, or maybe Ralph misunderstood the difference between a /key pair/ and a /signature/: gpg --help Syntax: gpg [options] [files] sign, check, encrypt or decrypt default operation depends on the input data Commands: ==> -s, --sign [file] make a signature --clearsign [file] make a clear text signature -b, --detach-sign make a detached signature -e, --encrypt encrypt data -c, --symmetric encryption only with symmetric cipher -d, --decrypt decrypt data (default) --verify verify a signature --list-keys list keys --list-sigs list keys and signatures --check-sigs list and check key signatures --fingerprint list keys and fingerprints -K, --list-secret-keys list secret keys ==> --gen-key generate a new key pair --delete-keys remove keys from the public keyring --delete-secret-keys remove keys from the secret keyring --sign-key sign a key So if the question really does relate to creating a signature, Ralph was wrong. If the question was wrong, and a key pair needs to be generated in order to sign something, then Ralph was right. However, other than pointing this out by the simple expedient of confusing everyone further, Alexander's reply was less than helpful, since it neither pointed out why the answer given was presumably not correct, or provided a correct answer if the answer given was in fact not correct. Awaiting more data in order to answer /your/ question, Jason (can not compute)..... .... but everybody could just read the man page and work it out for themselves, of course :) . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list