[TriLUG] Newly generated gpg keys

Josh Vickery josh at vickeryj.com
Fri May 12 13:05:01 EDT 2006


I sent along my key and was able to pull it back down from pgp.mit.edu.

Once I sign someone else's key should I then upload it back to the
keyserver I got them from?

Josh

On 5/12/06, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> For those with whom I swapped gpg key fingerprints last night, my
> rPath key is now on public key servers.  Those of you who recently
> generated your keys need to send them to key servers or send them to
> me directly via e-mail.
>
> Keys I could not find at this early hour:
> Josh Vickery
> Michael Peachy
> Alan Porter
>
> gpg --send-keys <yourkeyId> will send it out to a key server where it
> will be passed around like the stomach virus in a kindergarten class
> to all the keyservers.
>
> Please note that you CAN live life without sending your public key to
> a key server, but in that case your public key must be transmitted by
> some other mechanism, usually e-mail.  Of course the penalty for
> uploading someone elses public key to a keyserver (that wasn't already
> there) is death.
>
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