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Feb
23
2006
Generate a GnuPG key
Posted by C.J. Collier on Thu 23 Feb 2006 01:57 UTC
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to generate a gpg key, run the following:

gpg --gen-key

when that completes, run

gpg --list-keys

for instance, to get the key information from my pub key, I run:

$ gpg --list-keys cjcollier@mysql.com
pub 1024D/6CC27EA8 2001-04-27
uid C.J. Collier
uid C.J. Collier
uid C.J. Collier
uid [jpeg image of size 9187]

After you generate it, you should publish your public key:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys

mine looks like this:

$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys 6CC27EA8
gpg: sending key 6CC27EA8 to hkp server pgp.mit.edu

You can get my GnuPG key with the following command:

$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 6CC27EA8

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