[Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I still had the scripts of the past few years, but I found on my system,
I have sendmail disabled because of port forwarding, and the resulting
shar did not work, so the script I am using uses the mailx client.

On 09/25/2011 09:36 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Apparently some people didn't receive the attached bash script I had sent
> to the list, so I've added it to the BLU website. You can find it at
>
>     http://blu.org/meetings/2011/09/email-signed-keys.txt
>
> The script scrapes the BLU website to find the date of the most recent
> BLU keysigning party, and uses the first email address it finds on your
> signing key as the sender address. The script will walk you through the
> process of signing each keyid you specify on the command line, fetching
> each key from subkeys.php.net before asking if you want to sign it.
> The script then generates a Batch-SMTP shar archive file containing
> email messages to send each key to the email addresses found on the
> key's uids, after exporting and encrypting the key so that only someone
> with access to the corresponding secret key can read the message.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Err, I don't use PGP, but I didn't see an attachment at my end.
>> Perhaps the list software strips attachments?
>>
>> Bill Bogstad
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:38 AM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>> Attached is my bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigning party.
>>> Usage:
>>>
>>>    email-signed-keys.sh [ --local-user keyid ] keyid keyid keyid ....
>>>
>>> If you want to sign with a secret key other than your default secret key,
>>> use the "--local-user" option.
>>>
>>> The script prompts you to sign each key listed on the command line,
>>> then produces a BSMTP (batch smtp) shar archive to email the
>>> signed and encrypted keys to their owners so that only the person
>>> who has each secret key can read the corresponding email.
>>>
>>> To avoid having to retype your pass phrase multiple times, it helps
>>> to run gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
>>> Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9
>>> PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Discuss at blu.org
>>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>
>>>
>
>


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