Grouping Keys

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Thu Jan 16 18:35:02 2003


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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 18:07, Jeff Newton wrote:
> Can someone explain how to assign a name to a group of keys in gpg
> 1.2.0?
>=20
> According to man, I thought the following would work:
>=20
> gpg --group <name>=3D<keyid1>,<keyid2>
>=20
> But gpg asks for additional input (Go ahead and type your message ...)

The group thing is just an option - so you still need to tell gpg what
to do (and by default it reads a signed/encrypted message from stdin and
tries to encrypt/verify it).

The group option is really most useful in the config file, so the group
is available everytime you use gpg.

cheers
-- vbi

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