Jason Ausmus schreef:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 20,
>> 2005 3:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
>> [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature
>>
>> You're answer was to a different question.
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> Whose answer was to a different question?
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>> Ralph Slooten schrieb:
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>>> gpg --gen-key
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>> Wrong.
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>>>> can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature?
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>> That's the question.
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> Was the answer Ralph gave not correct? I don't understand what
> you're trying to say...
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>> Alexander Skwar
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>> 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
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