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]