On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:57:30AM -0500, Aaron Spike wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
Aaron, and to help users with that, it's important to have pre0 out as early as possible.
Can someone point me to a tome on gpg etiquette?
Here's a howto...
http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html
But basically you just need to do this:
After installing gpg (usually called 'gnupg'), you can create a key like this:
To set up key:
$ gpg --gen-key Please select what kind of key you want: (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
Your selection? 1 What keysize do you want? (2048)
Please specify how long the key should be valid. 0 = key does not expire
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y
Real name: myname Email address: Comment:
You selected this USER-ID: "myname"
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
passphrase: myphrase again: myphrase
pub 1024D/48D293A1 2006-02-13 Key fingerprint = 6738 5CA3 514D 35D6 DB26 98CF B5B5 80D1 48D2 93A1 uid myname sub 2048g/2DA7C55C 2006-02-13
To encrypt FILE: $ gpg -r myname --encrypt FILE
To GPG sign a tarball, see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CreatingDists
HTH Bryce