How to generate a new key pair and publish your public key

Jason Clinton clintonj at umkc.edu
Sun Sep 8 15:14:45 CDT 2002


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At the console type:

$ gpg --gen-key

Select option 1 for DSA/ELG
Follow the rest of the dirrections.
After it's finished:

$ gpg --list-secret-keys

Will show you your new keys and their ID's

$ gpg --list-keys

Will show you your public keys. Now do this to publish your email keys:

$ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net --send-keys <insert key ID #'s here>

That's it! Now we can all get your public key from the keyserver.

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