Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

[Sam Morris]

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:50:22 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> The e-mails I received were identical apart from the sender's name, so I
> suspect they are using a script. I wasn't able to find anything
> definitive on Google so can't be sure which script they are using, but
> the text ran like:
> ---quote---
> Hi,
>
> please find attached the user id
>       Antony Paul Whitmore <tony at tonywhitmore.co.uk>
> of your key 7920DB2171B98B64 signed by me.
>
> If you have multiple user ids, I sent the signature for each user id
> separately to that user id's associated email address. You can import
> the signatures by running each through `gpg --import`.
>
> Note that I did not upload your key to any keyservers. If you want this
> new signature to be available to others, please upload it yourself.
> With GnuPG this can be done using
>       gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-key 7920DB2171B98B64
>
> If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
> ---end quote---

I can at least help clear this one up, as I was one of the ones who used
the script. :)

It is called CA Fire and Forget (caff). Its home page,
containing a brief description and a link to the source code is
<http://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org/>.

A copy of the man page can be found online at
<http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/caff.1.html>.

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Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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