Jussi -- ...and then Jussi Ekholm said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % % > ...and then Shawn McMahon said... % >> If you do that, make sure you local-sign, not sign for export. The latter % >> would be a big no-no. The gpg and pgp documention goes into these subjects ... % % One more question popped in my mind; when GnuPG automagicly fetches % a key of some person and verifies it, it goes to the key list (I mean,
Yes, it does. % that I can check it out with 'gpg --list-keys'). Does this mean, that % it is signed? If it does, is it lsigned or signed for export? Nope. Nothing of the sort; you have to sign keys for them to be signed (that may sound like a tautology, but it's really an illustration). % % Because I have a *lots* of keys now, which I can view ith --list-keys % option for gpg... and I'm not so experienced yet, that I could tell % if they are signed or not. Don't worry; it's there, but it's not in your way. % % Sorry, if the answer is self-evident and the question's stupid, but % I'd just like to know... First, check out gpg --help to see what you can do with the program. Read it in great detail -- really! Then take a look at this example: [zero] [6:47am] ~> gpg --list-keys 0xbc3ff6d4 pub 1024D/BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/D965F16A 1999-05-26 pub 1024D/BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/D965F16A 1999-05-26 [zero] [6:47am] ~> gpg --list-sigs 0xbc3ff6d4 pub 1024D/BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig CBAE9171 1999-05-26 David Thorburn-Gundlach (default) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig 7B9F4700 2001-12-17 David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/D965F16A 1999-05-26 sig BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig CBAE9171 1999-05-26 David Thorburn-Gundlach (default) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig 7B9F4700 2001-12-17 David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/D965F16A 1999-05-26 sig BC3FF6D4 1999-05-26 Mike Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The rest is left as an exercise for the student ;-) Note that you probably don't always want to use --list-sigs, though: [zero] [6:49am] ~> gpg --list-keys | wc -l 1085 [zero] [6:49am] ~> gpg --list-sigs | wc -l 2929 % % -- % Jussi Ekholm | And Jesus is on opium and Jesus needs a fix % [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And Jesus is a suffering slave to ritualistic sex % http://erppimaa.cjb.net/ | Singing love brother love... % ekh @ IRCNet | Singing love brother love... :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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