On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Royce Souther <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not use GnuPG from maybe 7 years now, ever since I stopped using > Evolution as a mail client and moved to Gmail. Gmail does not support > encryption so what is the point. > > I do remember that I had a key, and it was signed and may have even been > available on a server but I don't remember what server or how to find it so > that I can update the public key. Is there a search for stuff like that? > Only half of the key pair would have been uploaded (the half designated as the public key). The private key would have been on your computer.
> I just generated a new key so that a client can send me some stuff. I don't > have time to get the public key signed and I was able to talk to him on the > phone so I think he knows the key is real. At one point in time CLUG was all > the buzzy about key signing parties but I have not seen any thing about that > for a long time now. Are CLUG'ers still doing this? Is there a better way? > I still maintain a couple of keys, in fact you have to do this for Debian and Ubuntu packaging (something I have been meaning to get back in to). It seems that email signing never really caught on, and I am now addicted to the gmail priority inbox interface. There is no signing in Gmail and as much as I am a google fan boy, I would never send them my private key. The web of trust part also never took off. I usually end up confirming the fingerprint via a phone call for those rare cases where verification is important (I have had to do this maybe 3 times in a decade). You can search for public keys using the following syntax: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys <key search terms, could be email address or name> kgpg is a pretty good GUI front end for gpg. Try these example searches: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net --search-keys [email protected] gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net --search-keys gustin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
