Create key and encrypt web-form data for email

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 27-Sep-2002/12:36 -0400, Sean M McMahon <ambassadorsean@juno.com> wrote:
>Ok...I DO have SSH access to the server. And I have a little button in my
>control panel that says "Manage Open PGP keys" which I can try to "Add a
>new key" under, but I still haven't figured out what some of the fields
>mean. To recap, these are the fields I have to fill in:
[snip]

The "control panel" interface you're using is likely something your ISP
whipped up to make things easy for Winusers. It sounds like it's broken.

If you have SSH access, I suggest you use it. GPG is designed to be used
from the command line, and it works very well that way.

Get PuTTy <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/> and setup
an SSH session using SSH2 protocol and Blowfish encryption. When you are
logged in, you can create a GnuPG key using this command:

  gpg --gen-key

You will be prompted for the required information.

Creating and setting up a script requires some knowledge of Linux/UNIX,
which goes beyond the scope of this list. Frankly, it would be easier for
me to do it than to describe everything that you would need to know to do
it, and I'm too busy to tackle that kind of work for free.

You'll either need to learn how to create and edit scripts on Linux using
command line/character-based tools (vi/vim, pico) or get someone to do it
for you. What you're attempting is like going from never using a keyboard
to creating a web page; it is non-trivial.

In the end, you'll need a script, probably using Perl, to pipe the form
data through gpg and into 'mail' (not sendmail).

Tony
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