On Dec 19, 2007 10:40 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
> The key things are just killing me. I have Seahorse running and it
> is no help at all. It is just too much for me. Since you will not not
> let me write for Fedora without all these things done, I will not write
> for Fedora.
>
> Karl
>
> Goodbye
>
Karl, what steps do you use to generate keys?
I followed these steps verbatim:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys
1. gpg --gen-key (I used all the default values)
2. gpg --fingerprint your(a)email.address
For me this prints something such as the following:
pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Maybe the GPGKEYID is confusing? Using my example, first line (pub),
it is the second hex value (81B3FDEB)
3. Upload to MIT: gpg --keyserver
pgp.mit.edu --send-keys 81B3FDEB
4. To export them, and possibly upload them to make an account: gpg
--export --armor murray.mcallister@gmail > murray_pub.asc
will export my public key to murray_pub.asc
If you are still around, could you please run through the steps I have
here (even though they are a copy of the website), and let me know how
you go.
All the best.
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pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Murray, The last straw is after I got the stupid thing to put my
signature into the message back to fedora It didn't do that right. And I
just get Sorry your file is currupt.
So having made 3 key rings and numerous tries at getting the thing to
work I am done. There is something odd about F8 or something I am not
aware of is causing trouble. But I'm tired of chasing problems.
Everything else seems to work fine.
Karl
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