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[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> 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?
> 

You have to use the --armor option on the gpg command along with
"--export":

gpg --export --armor [KEYID]

That will create the little block like this:



maddog at shaman:~$ gpg --export --armor 25FED075

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)

mQGiBEWypkwRBADtoeYipqQjNEwZ1De
<lots of presumably uuendoded crap removed>
=LW3L
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Which you can safely ship in email.

The recipient can then slog that into gpg at the other end.

md