On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:16 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 05:27:31 am Murray McAllister wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > Thanks for joining. I'm glad you got your keys sorted out. That was > > almost correct, but you do not need the 0x pre-pended (so it would be > > 1381C1A4F). Out of curiosity, where did you find that information > > (0x)? > > I've been experimenting with pgp a little, > and it seems to me that pgp.mit.edu _does_ expect 0x to precede the key. > > I've looked again at > <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys>, > and in my view the advice given there is not the best. > > What for instance do the lines > ------------------------------------------------------ > gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --send-key KEYNAME > > For KEYNAME, substitute the key ID of your primary keypair. > ------------------------------------------------------ > actually mean? > Why not just give an example instead of this abstract terminology. > > Assuming the "key ID" means something like "D575F650" > then the advice in my experience does not work. I just performed this step on my machine again, using my key ID "BD113717," and the procedure worked fine. I have done this many times, both with a prepended "0x" and without, and all of these operations succeeded. I've confirmed the success using wireshark to look at the network traffic. I think if you are having a problem -- the nature of which I can't tell from the information you gave -- it might be on your end. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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