Help with a OpenPGP key.....

[Michael Cortes]

Thank you.  That handbook was exactly what I needed.

On Friday 09 July 2004 11:20 am, Matt Brodeur wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:51:54AM -0400, Michael Cortes wrote:
> > I understand, that to verify the signature, or unencrypt an encrypted
> > file, the receiver must have my key and/or I must have the key for an
> > email/file I receive.
>
>    I would recommend some quality time with the GNU Privacy Handbook:
> http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
>
>    The short answers to your questions would be:
> 1. Anyone who wants to check your signature needs a copy of your
> PUBLIC key.  The easiest way to do this is by publishing your key to a
> keyserver.  As an example:
> $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com --send-key F6AE2889
>
> 2.  You will need public keys for those whose signatures you want to
> check, or whomever you want to encrypt messages to.  To get the public
> key to check, for example, this message's signature:
> $ gpg --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com --recv-keys 2cfe18a3
>
>
>    The GPH covers all of this and much more.  There are also mailing
> lists specific to GPG and PGP, if you're really interested.
>
> --
> Matt Brodeur                                                       RHCE
> MBrodeur at NextTime.com                           http://www.NextTime.com
>
> Don't you wish that all the people who sincerely want to help you
> could agree with each other?

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