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
>
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