How do I check a copy of my public key?

Thomas Arend ml at arend-whv.info
Tue Dec 2 20:18:18 CET 2003


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Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 16:51 schrieb Paul E Condon:
> I'm just getting started at crypto. I've read various
> HOWTOs and guides. I think I can follow the directions
> accurately, but I have my doubts as to my skill at
> doing things correctly. So, I would like to know about
> diagnostic tests. When I do --send-keys, how can I
> check that the updated key information is, in fact,
> available from the keyserver? Or, that after a day or
> so, it is available from some other keyserver?
>
> Maybe it is trivial to do this, but it seems to me
> that I don't have a way to distinguish informatio
> that is available to me on my computer from information
> that is available on the web.
>
> Thanks for any help.

Another way would be to import the key into a separte keyring

gpg --recv-key --keyring test.gpg --no-default-keyring 0x6600320D 
gpg --list-sigs  --with-colon 0x6600320D ; gpg --list-sigs --with-colon 
- --keyring test.gpg --no-default-keyring 0x6600320D 

Best regards

Thomas



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