On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Paul Werkowski wrote:

| You're receiving this email because your common-lisp.net home directory | contains no pubkey.asc, but does hold .ssh/authorized_keys.

Please explain why this is needed.

We treat your GPG public key as an opaque identity: if we need to confirm that the Paul Werkowski we're dealing with tomorrow is the same Paul Werkowski that originally got the account, or eg. send you a new password encrypted.

| Please verify that you have access, and put you GPG public key in your | home directory as pubkey.asc. You can get GPG to export it with the | command "gpg --armor --export <name>".

This doesn't work. It tells me to see the FAQ. What is <name>?

Which doesn't work -- access or GPG?

The <name> is eg. the part before @ in the email address that the kay contains: basically any bit of your name that is sufficient for GPG to tell which key to export. If you have other Pauls in your keyring then plain "Paul" is probably not enough.

Example:

$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.4 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 $ gpg -armor --export Siivola -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

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In addition to "Siivola" "Nikodemus Siivola", "Niko", and a dozen other variants work for me.

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."