How to lsign-key from batch ?

Enzo Michelangeli em at who.net
Sat Mar 3 03:04:03 CET 2001


Use --batch .

Enzo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Dearnaley" <ndearnaley at imerge.co.uk>
To: <gnupg-devel at gnupg.org>; <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:03 PM
Subject: How to lsign-key from batch ?


> We're trying to use GnuPG for secure communications between an appliance
> and a server on the Internet. In order to do this the appliance needs to
> be shipped preloaded with a public key which needs to be signed once the
> appliance has generated its own key-pair. I therefore need to be able to
> lsign a specific key (after verifying it) from the software itself -
> without getting interrupted by "really sign key?" and so on. 
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether this is possible, and if so hiow to do it?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> [FYI, The trust model is as follows:
> 
> Key-pair for software release, with public key shipped on appliance.
> 
> Key-pair for Internet Server, signed by software release.
> 
> Appliance generates own key pair, then if fingerprint for preloaded key
> matches one coded into software then sign software release key (also
> periodically checks key matches that available from key servers).
> 
> This should be reasonably secure.]
> 
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> Nick Dearnaley
> Software Team Leader, Imerge Ltd.
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