[admin] gpg keys

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Paul Werkowski wrote:

> | You're receiving this email because your common-lisp.net home directory
> | contains no pubkey.asc, but does hold .ssh/authorized_keys.
>
> Please explain why this is needed.

We treat your GPG public key as an opaque identity: if we need to confirm
that the Paul Werkowski we're dealing with tomorrow is the same Paul
Werkowski that originally got the account, or eg. send you a new password
encrypted.

> | Please verify that you have access, and put you GPG public key in your
> | home directory as pubkey.asc. You can get GPG to export it with the
> | command "gpg --armor --export <name>".
>
> This doesn't work. It tells me to see the FAQ. What is <name>?

Which doesn't work -- access or GPG?

The <name> is eg. the part before @ in the email address that the kay
contains: basically any bit of your name that is sufficient for GPG to
tell which key to export. If you have other Pauls in your keyring then
plain "Paul" is probably not enough.

Example:

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.4
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
$ gpg -armor --export Siivola
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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=77vw
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

In addition to "Siivola" "Nikodemus Siivola", "Niko", and a dozen other
variants work for me.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus                   "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java.
                             An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."