Signing multiple keys

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Aug 25 19:26:33 CEST 2011


On 08/25/2011 12:50 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> According to the gnupg(1) manpage, I see "--multifile" for encryption,
> decryption and verification. Is it possible to use this to sign multiple
> keys simultaneously? I don't have any keys to sign, or I would give this
> a try (I guess I could manually create a bunch of keys, and give it a
> go, but I'm not up for that amount of work).
> 
> Is there a better way to sign multiple keys? Suppose I received a public
> keyring of all attendees at a keysigning party. I know that signing the
> keyring would not sign all keys, so I guess I'm just looking for an
> efficient way to get this done.

if you have a list of fingerprints and the signing-party package
installed, you can do:

 caff $FPR1 $FPR2 ...

hth,
	--dkg

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