Sign key and export for each UID

Tobias Mueller 4tmuelle at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Tue Jan 20 17:39:00 CET 2015


Hi.

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:04:58PM +0530, Robin Mathew Rajan wrote:
> This shell script might help you.
> [...]
> http://mirror.roe.ch/rel/scripts/gpg/gpg-sign-keys.sh-25
hm.  I understood that best practises include signing each UID
separately rather than signing all UIDs on the key.  I don't see your
script signing every UID separately.

I was also hoping for less shell script and more of something I could
dictate to my mom over the phone.

Cheers,
  Tobi

> On 02-12-2014 PM 02:05, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I'm digging up this thread because it asked the same question I have,
> > but it hasn't really been answered:
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 06:23:35AM +0000, atair wrote:
> >> Is there a way to achieve the same signatures from gpg command line?
> >> For example
> >> $ gpg -a --export <uid>
> >> exports the complete key and not just the signature. However, I
> >> understand the gpg-man pages in a way that it's possible to do a
> >> $ gpg -u <my_keyid> --edit-key <other's_keyid>
> >>> sign <other's_first_uid>
> >>> sign <other's_second_uid>
> >>> ...
> >>> q
> > 
> > What are the best practises for signing another person's key (i.e. all the UIDs 
> > on a key)?
> > 
> > And how do you follow those using gnupg?  And is there a batch mode to automate that process?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Tobi
> > 



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