Create a Key using a script?

Atom Smasher atom at smasher.org
Wed Mar 2 01:49:32 CET 2005


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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Michael Avila wrote:

> Is there a way to create a key by passing a list of information to gpg?
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attached is a shell script that you can modify for your own key 
preferences.

SHA1 (gen-key-batch.gz) = 68b79122814f8d2d920c61e3d59bdff20687a0ae


> What I am trying to do is make it easy for our customers to create a 
> key. I want to have a web form where they fill in the information, I 
> submit it to gpg, I save the key on a keyring, and let them know what to 
> do next. Is this possible? I have a Windows and a Linux platform from 
> which this can be done if that is important.
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huh? you want to generate keys for people? why would they trust you? you 
could keep a copy of their secret key and cause trouble.


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