exporting keys to email

[Ingo Klöcker]

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chronos wrote:
> Hi all,
> Had a question about exporting my keys to my email. I found this on a
> redhat site. gpg --armor --export <you@yourisp.com>>mykey.asc Now
> then I`m using Kmail and running mandrake 7.1. Basic question first-
> under file settings pgp it asks for your pgp user identity. What
> exactly am I supposed to put in there ? The number or my
> you@yourisp.com or something else ?

You should enter the user id you chose when you generated your key, 
i.e. you@yourisp.com.
And be sure to choose GPG as "Encryption tool".
Oh, wait a second. I just saw that you are using KMail 1.0.28. This is 
a really old version of KMail. It doesn't support GPG. You should 
really switch to KMail 1.2 which comes with KDE 2.0(.1). Or even better 
get the Beta 2 of KDE 2.1. The KMail version included in the beta 
contains a lot new features (and better GPG support).

> Then when exporting my key to my
> email it says file not found for the <you@yourisp.com>> What am I
> supposed to put there ? Or do I need to create a file to export the
> key into first under the gpg directory ?

With KMail 1.2 you can simply attach a key to an email via a menu 
option.
With the old KMail you have to run
gpg --armor --export <you@yourisp.com> >mykey.asc
You will then get a file called mykey.asc which contains your key. To 
send the key to someone via email simply attach mykey.asc to the email.

Regards,
Ingo
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