On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 21:52 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 04:42:07 pm Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > 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. > > What precisely are you doing? > > My statements are: > > 1. It is not clear what "key ID" means. > If you google for this term, > you will find that the ID is normally prefaced with 0x. > Here for example is the entry in "PGP glossary" > ------------------------------------------------------ > To enable PGP to distinct between a username (userID) and the key ID, the > keyID is prefixed with 0x, for example 0xDD934139. ... > ------------------------------------------------------ That only applies if there is a collision between a user name and a key ID, which rarely happens in practice. The gpg command line program otherwise will find the right key. > But my main point is the term "key ID" _is not clear_, > and should be accompanied by a concrete example. > > > I have done this many times, > > both with a prepended "0x" and without, and all of these operations > > succeeded. > > If you go to pgp.mit.edu (which appears to be the point of the exercise) > and put in your ID without 0x, is it found? No, but since that's not part of the process we're documenting, does it matter in terms of our procedure? > > 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. > > I'm not having a problem at all. > I'm saying that the documentation is not clear. I've added a short paragraph in each "creating a keypair" section to note that in most cases, using "0xNNNNNNNN" is sufficient usage. -- 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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