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[Discuss] Script to simplify the process of signing keys after the BLU keysigning party
- Subject: [Discuss] Script to simplify the process of signing keys after the BLU keysigning party
- From: jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:18:34 -0400
My bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigning party is on the BLU website at http://blu.org/keysignings/email-signed-keys.txt Usage: ./email-signed-keys.sh [ { --bsmtp | --mailx } ] [ --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 either a BSMTP (batch smtp) shar archive or a mailx 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. Us the "--mailx" switch if you'll be sending the emails from a system that can send mail with the mailx(1) command. This is the default. Use the "--bsmtp" switch if you'll be sending the emails from a system that can send mail with the /usr/sbin/sendmail command. To avoid having to retype your pass phrase multiple times, it helps to run gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase. If you have a gmail account, there's a Linux package "ssmtp" that takes the place of /usr/sbin/sendmail and can be configured to use gmail to send mail from your desktop linux machine. See http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/send-mail-with-gmail-and-ssmtp/ for details. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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