[H-GEN] Re: pgp fun

[Greg Black]

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+0Ny BilbRough wrote:

| Even though I fear I may be shredded for this lapse in etiquette!

I don't think it's ever a good idea to post private email to a
list without first getting the originator's permission (which
seems an easy thing to do).  But that's not the reason for this
message.

| How ever you will note that I have deleted the line starting with 'sub'
| This is your personal key and it should not be made available to
| pheasants like me, or the rest of the world, either

No, that's not correct.  Look at the following commands and
their output:

$ gpg --list-keys gjb
pub  1024D/4B04B7D6 2001-03-26 Greg Black (GnuPG main key) <gjb at gbch.net>
sub  2048g/9A4F431A 2001-03-26

$ gpg --list-secret-keys gjb
sec  1024D/4B04B7D6 2001-03-26 Greg Black (GnuPG main key) <gjb at gbch.net>
ssb  2048g/9A4F431A 2001-03-26

In the first command, you can see (some of) my public keys and
you can tell that by the presence of the words "pub" and "sub"
at the start of the lines.

In the second command, you see that "pub" and "sub" have become
"sec" and "ssb" -- these are the secret keys (and indeed, you
should never divulge them to others for any reason at all, and
this includes others such as me or Mark).

Of course, what Mark wants is not the output of those commands,
but of "gpg --export --armor xxx" (where you replace "xxx" with
your identifier, "gjb" in my case).

Greg

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