[Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Suggestions for other options are welcome. One that just occurred to me
would be to generate an mbox file instead of a bsmtp file. Perhaps the
mbox file could somehow be passed into an MUA such as Thunderbird
in such a way as to trick the MUA into sending the batch of messages?

For now, one can just copy and paste the generated messages.With only
a small handful of keys to be signed, it's a relatively small chore.



On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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