Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

GC wrote:
> I would like to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE. How do I do that?

For production, see chapter 1 of GPG documentatio,
"Getting Started":

  https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html

(note the swapping of "g" and "p" in comparison to PGP.)

The manual of gpg is quite rich in detail information:
  man gpg


When posting official announcements to info-gnu@gnu.org, i use

  gpg --clearsign my_file

to get a new file  my_file.asc  which looks like

  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
  Hash: SHA1

  Hi,
  ...

  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
  Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)

  iD8DBQFVWdQp6cvfwKvAqFQRAkWDAJwMwJS89XAq2npLv0iYdmCT6fv8LACgoRVW
  csBodn7iN9YzXO2sHZgthFc=
  =FlQN
  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

This can be verified by getting my public key

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys ABC0A854

and running gpg --verify on my signed cleartext message

  gpg --verify my_file.asc

An example message can be found at
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2015-05/msg00009.html


Have a nice day :)

Thomas