Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

[Ted Roche]

Bill Sconce wrote:

> Can anyone give me a pointer as to how to do the job manually?
> (No Sendmail, no Postfix.  Just answering the durned messages.)
> There must be a HOWTO somewhere.

Well, considering it is taking 48 hours for me to get mail right now, I
may not be your best resource. (Off-topic: securetransit.com. Grrr.)

Caff is just a Perl hacker's attempt at automating the signing process
for those who have configured their local workstation to send mail. You
should still be able to do this manually. Here's how I would do this
(please, please, those with more knowledge correct me here!):

1. Get the key you want to sign. Using Bill's Key ID from our signing list:

$gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net  --recv-keys 16738E52
gpg: requesting key 16738E52 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key 16738E52: "Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

2. Sign the key:

$ gpg --sign-key sconce at in-spec-inc.com

pub  1024D/16738E52  created: 2007-03-15  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: full          validity: full
sub  2048g/A83FAD0C  created: 2007-03-15  expires: never       usage: E
[  full  ] (1). Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com>

Your current signature on "Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com>"
is a local signature.
Do you want to promote it to a full exportable signature? (y/N) y

pub  1024D/16738E52  created: 2007-03-15  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: full          validity: full
 Primary key fingerprint: 7F86 42C8 BEB4 58E4 7048  950C B446 E3AE 1673 8E52

     Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com>

Are you sure that you want to sign this key with your
key "Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com>" (A0B8C468)

Really sign? (y/N) y

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID A0B8C468, created 2007-01-15


3. Export the key, encrypted with my key, to email to Bill:

Um. I tried a couple of things and just managed to mangle up my shell
windows with lines-and-boxes font characters. Anyone have a suggestion
on how to do this one? Anyone? Beuller?

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com