-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say: > Hi, Debian Users. > > A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using > X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I normally use.
Ok, to continue the discussion, it turns out that (DN) means "Distinguished Names" the _best_ description of "Distinguished Names" that I found was Microsoft's: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366101(VS.85).aspx And once I'd put in "CN=Curt Howland" the keygen process worked. One of the problems is that the --list-keys display doesn't use the term "Name (DN)" anywhere, so there's no way to know what field is being referred to in the keygen question. Next step is importing and using the key, but what a mess. The original PGP was easier to use than this, maybe because it wasn't written by people who already know what they're doing. Second System Syndrome. Curt- - -- The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS1tBay9Y35yItIgBAQJJ2gf+Nt887oJiIteVWXUGdq9XgZY9M4N0OZAL T3ZyMWsOjn+G7iYFMfO0edGZ/DOsiTuPtuBB3+FdcK75+fgJ2Yah8PMgwwtqCkKK y5C/RqKLimUNVgvfySWcpsGUKfKm8516uRh+o7dx8OBLDeWRFxMr8u1mlNZIhJaZ DFDh2xVUKvnxFr3J+PeiOyG4ygzhUCNErbG8vUN0VggqsYc/HGeR3puRipEFZ8H1 Qeq5L3FTUNXl25u7UJ3kKiEdqu1iwdcgWDc9IvtrbP4opSmcdzfTp8c5Ef6c2utA SHm6oPXBQ32kpV0PpDNny7iMpt3oGN+NBLVVr2bwpa+4icPRXBRrLw== =2P5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org