Murray McAllister wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 10:40 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> The key things are just killing me. I have Seahorse running and it
>> is no help at all. It is just too much for me. Since you will not not
>> let me write for Fedora without all these things done, I will not write
>> for Fedora.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> Goodbye
>>
>
> Karl, what steps do you use to generate keys?
>
> I followed these steps verbatim:
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys
>
> 1. gpg --gen-key (I used all the default values)
> 2. gpg --fingerprint your(a)email.address
>
> For me this prints something such as the following:
>
> pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious)
> <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>
> Maybe the GPGKEYID is confusing? Using my example, first line (pub),
> it is the second hex value (81B3FDEB)
>
> 3. Upload to MIT: gpg --keyserver
pgp.mit.edu --send-keys 81B3FDEB
>
> 4. To export them, and possibly upload them to make an account: gpg
> --export --armor murray.mcallister@gmail > murray_pub.asc
> will export my public key to murray_pub.asc
>
> If you are still around, could you please run through the steps I have
> here (even though they are a copy of the website), and let me know how
> you go.
>
> All the best.
>
>
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>
> pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious)
> <murray.mcallister(a)gmail.com>
> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>
>
Murray, The last straw is after I got the stupid thing to put my
signature into the message back to fedora It didn't do that right. And
I just get Sorry your file is currupt.
So having made 3 key rings and numerous tries at getting the thing to
work I am done. There is something odd about F8 or something I am not
aware of is causing trouble. But I'm tired of chasing problems.
Everything else seems to work fine.
Karl
Did you edit the .txt file before applying the key? It didn't explicitly
say that so that may be your issue.