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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