problem while sending gpg key to mit key server

[David Boles]

on 7/14/2007 1:08 PM, Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> On 7/15/07, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> on 7/14/2007 12:44 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> David Boles wrote:
>>>> Directed at you Mikkel as you are dealing with this problem. Did the OP
>>>> ever say that he actually *created* a key?
>>>>
>>> I thought he had in the first message. But I do not have it any
>>> more. From a message on another list:
>>>
>>> Mustafa Qasim wrote:
>>>> 1)Introduced my self a couple of days ago.
>>>> 2) Created the ssh key
>>>> 3) Created the gpg key
>>>> (Take a backup of both ~/.ssh and ~/.gnupg directories)
>>>> 4) Created the Bugzilla account
>>>> 5) Tried to sent the gpg key to mit server thjrough the command given
>> in the Check list
>>>>
>>> But I think there may be a language problem. There is a problem in
>>> that in my first instruction the e-mail address ended up as a
>>> mailto:<email address> instead of <email address> (Thunderbird
>>> insists on making the conversion for me - I have to turn that off.)
>>> and I used shell redirection instead of the --outfile option and he
>>> did not understand that the "> mykey.txt" at the end of the command
>>> created a text file with the ASCII armored key, so he put his key
>>> file there instead.
>>>
>>> I think I will let someone else try and explain this, as I do not
>>> seem to be communicating with the op too well. :(
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>> That is too bad. Your advice here is always good.
>>
>> I sent him a very easy to use site in another post. Perhaps that will
>> help.
>>
>> I did not see a mention of an email client. Most have a feature that will
>> actually do this for you, in GUI, instead of CLI.
>> --
>>
>>   David
>>
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> Hello!
>          well sir David i am not using any e-mail client. Can we send the
> key through a email-client? and the link u gave above doesn't open :( ......

I thought that you were trying to use this key for email. The link I
offered is a website so you would connect with your web browser. Firefox,
for example, and send the key by following the prompts.


-- 

  David

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