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

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Thu Mar 22 11:44:43 EDT 2007


Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>> 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:

Excellent answer! Thanks, maddog. I had the sequence of arguments wrong,
 thinking that the keyid went after the --export and Bad Things Happened.

Bill Sconce, how's that work for you?

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