Enigmail question:how to I *export* my public key?

Elton Woo elwoo at videotron.ca
Wed Dec 31 02:53:18 UTC 2003


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prata at ghostlike.homelinux.org wrote:

|On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:56:39PM -0500, Elton Woo typed in a frenzy:

... actually *not* in a frenzy!  ... more like "in a semi-stupor". LOL!

|Well, I don't use mozilla to compose mail, so I can't say for certain
|how you do this in Mozilla Mail. I can tell you how to do it from the

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from mozilla, so I had to do
it from the
command line.

|
|CLI though.
|
|First, make sure enigmail keeps your key in a sane place. This command
|should suffice to tell:
|
|gpg --list-keys

Yes, I did get:
$ gpg --list-keys
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
/home/abe/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
- ----------------------------
pub  1024D/26274797 2003-12-30 Elton Woo ( ...[edited out] ... )
<elwoo at videotron.ca>
sub  1024g/104EB97B 2003-12-30

|
|gpg --send-keys --keyserver "insert keyserver without quotes" "username"


I had also posted a request for help on a less busy list McLUG (McGill
university, here in Montreal. I was given the following links:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/step-guide/s1-gnupg-export.html
http://wiki.openskills.net:10045/OpenSkills/GPG+Key+Publishing

So I was able to upload my public key to pgp.mit.edu and to
search.keyserver.net. From the latter, I have been able to verify the
fact, doing a search by my name or email address. You should now be able
to download my public keys, if (as it appears) I have now "mastered" the
procedure. Thanks again for your reply.

Elton ;-)
P.S. I *don't intend* to make a habit of it, but for this once, I will
also append my public key block to this message.

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Public key for elwoo at videotron.ca
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