On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:09:20AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > Of course, as with all your usernames on your own key, make sure you > > sign them with the same key. Unsigned usernames should be treated with > > utter suspicion. (For all I know, modern versions of PGP might sign them > > automatically. I think GPG does.) > > Speaking of gpg, is there anything special to think of before I switch to > using that? Or would it simply be a question of installing it, generating a > new key and sending it to the key maintainer? Also, how well does it cope > with pgp v2/v5 keys? Quite well.. Here's my ~/.gnupg/options file: # Options for GnuPG # # Unless you you specify which option file to use (with the # commandline option "--options filename"), GnuPG uses the # file ~/.gnupg/options by default. # # An option file can contain all long options which are # available in GnuPG. If the first non white space character of # a line is a '#', this line is ignored. Empty lines are also # ignored. # # See the man page for a list of options. # default-key 0x3F9C2A43 default-key 0x50BDA0ED ## This stuff is all here for pgp compatibility force-v3-sigs rfc1991 digest-algo md5 #load-extension rsa load-extension rsaref load-extension idea escape-from-lines lock-once no-verbose no-greeting comment The default gpg comment sucks! ;> secret-keyring secring.gpg secret-keyring secring.pgp keyring pubring.gpg keyring pubring.pgp keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg To use that with dpkg-buildpackage: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -pgpg -sgpg -k0x50BDA0ED <-- my RSA key dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -pgpg -sgpg -k0xDCF9DAB3 <-- my DSA key -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Wordplay> You measure your vibrators in "characters per second"? I have bad news for you, c90, you've been masturbating with a dot-matrix printer.
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