[TriLUG] GnuPG: Why do you send those attachments to the mailing list?

Magnus chrish at trilug.org
Mon Jul 14 18:37:40 EDT 2003


Some of you in IRC may have heard today about how I recently signed up 
for a very non-technical mailing list for musicians, and how one person 
(who was actually running Linux & KMail!) had made the typical newbie 
complaint about my OpenPGP signatures.  The difference, in his case, is 
that his mail client was working just fine and warning him that he 
didn't have my key so it couldn't verify the authorship of the message 
being displayed.  I sent him a one line command that would fix his 
problem ( wget --quiet -O - http://yonderway.com/hedemark.asc | gpg 
--quiet --import ) and got back a bunch of bile & vinegar.

I was going to write up a FAQ to send to people with broken 
configurations that complain about my standards-compliant email until I 
ran across this little gem.  Maybe you'll enjoy it, too.

http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
PGP Key fingerprint = 984D 9A88 3D60 016F BE01 1506 60FB 85E1 9ABD 96F6
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