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[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Anand A Rao <andy at honnu.com> writes:

> can u (or some one else ) key in a couple of words as a small instruction set 
> in building our pulic key and putting it into pgp.dtype.org keyserver. 
> 
> It will be of nice help. As most faqs comme with huge articles and kind of 
> hard to gather whats the perfect method. 
> thanks and regards
> Andy

Sure, no problem. I'm using GnuPG myself, so that's what I'll describe.
The procedure for PGP should presumably be similar.

To generate a new key pair:

    % gpg --gen-key

This will step you through the key generation process. For your first time,
you should take the default, which generate two keys: an encryption key
and a signing key. Where it gives 1024 as the default keysize, you may want
to instead take the 2048 maximum.

Next, edit your .gnupg/options file (the .gnupg directory is in your home
directory; it's created by the key generation process). Find the 
"keyserver"
line near the bottom and change it to

    keyserver pgp.dtype.org

Find your key id:

    % gpg --list-keys

When I run this, I get a list that includes the following:

    pub  1024R/D5C7B5D9 1996-03-28 John M. Abreau <jabr at blu.org>

Based on this, I see my key is 1024 bits long and has the id 0xD5C7B5D9.

Finally, send your public key to the keyserver:

    % gpg --send-keys 0xD5C7B5D9

using your own key id in place of mine.


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