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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [GPG] System-wide public key? Post 302392746 by pludi on Friday 5th of February 2010 09:41:35 AM
Old 02-05-2010
Again, please tell us as much about what you need as you can. From what you've posted:
  • You have the public key of someone else
  • You need to send them encrypted files
The later can be done, as you have the former. You are required to send them a public key. Why? Probably because you need to sign the data you send. But how, and with what authority, should your public key be signed? How do you transmit the data, automatically, or by hand? Would you sign & encrypt it automatically or by hand?

Sorry for all those questions, but my crystal ball has been sent to the repair shop...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gpg-mailkeys

GPG-MAILKEYS(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   GPG-MAILKEYS(1)

NAME

       gpg-mailkeys - sends emails containing keys to their owners

SYNOPSIS

       gpg-mailkeys id...

DESCRIPTION

       gpg-mailkeys  sends  the owners of the keys listed on the command line a mail each, containing their public key. After signing, you can use
       this tool to send everyone the new signatures they just got.

       If you're interested in encrypting the signature before it's sent, in order to verify that the associated address actually belongs  to  the
       key owner, you should check out caff

OPTIONS

       None

ENVIRONMENT

       NAME	    Set the name to use when sending messages

       EMAIL	    Set the email address to use when sending messages

       SUBJECT	    Set the subject of the messages you send

       TEXT	    Set the body text of the messages

       SENDMAIL_ARGS
		    Set  arguments to pass to /usr/sbin/sendmail. This can be useful to set credentials in order to authenticate to an smtp server
		    when using ssmtp for example.

FILES

       The behavior of gpg-mailkeys can be updated through some files available in the user home directory.

       Thus, ~/.gpg-mailkeysrc allows the user to overwrite the default value for the above environment variables, and any  text  in  ~/.signature
       will be appended to the end of the body text of the message.

SEE ALSO

       gpg(1),caff(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>.

								   Nov 23, 2010 						   GPG-MAILKEYS(1)
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