On Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:30:56 Sean Swehla wrote:
> I've signed all the keys that I verified at the meeting last week, and I've
> received a few signatures already. Is there any standard for for sending
> out the signed keys?

Sadly, no.  Each key signing I've ever been involved in does this differently.

IMHO the best you can do is describe the expected process(es) before the key 
signing event so one knows what to do expect to do and what you'll get in 
return.

> Of the three I've received so far, I've had one uploaded to the keyservers,
> one uploaded and a signed confirmation emailed, and one encrypted and
> emailed to each UID but not uploaded.
> 
> Also, do you recommend any good tools? `gpg` is fine for uploading, as is
> Enigmail, it seems. The emails I've received look like they're either
> auto-generated or tedious to construct. is there something that will email
> a signed key to it's owner?

The 'caff' utility in the signing-party package is what I use too, but I had 
trouble using it at first because it sends its resultant emails to a /local/ 
MTA, and so if one is not installed or if one is but not configured, the 
resultant encrypted/signed emails end up going to /dev/null such that you 
/think/ you've sent recipients what they need, but in actually you haven't.

Additionally, the 'caff' utility doesn't use your normal ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf 
configuration.  See the FILES section of 'man caff'.

Did I mention this was complicated and error-prone?  ;-)

  -- Chris

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