You are further than I am - I am not even able to sign other keys - getting "gpg: secret key parts are not available" errors. Googling so far is not very helpful.
JC On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and > IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server > May 7 - Google App Engine > Jun 4 - Samba: Can We All Just Get Along? > > -- Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 ---------------------------------------- Prov. 12:15 Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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