Exporting Your Public Key - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - STEP BY STEP GUIDE Manual

Appendix B. Getting Started with Gnu Privacy Guard
Once your revocation certificate has been created (
You should copy the certificate to a diskette and store it in a secure place. (If you do not know how to
copy a file to a diskette in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Step By Step
Guide.)
B.5. Exporting your Public Key
Before you can use public key cryptography, other people must have a copy of your public key. To
send your key to correspondents or to a keyserver, you must export the key.
To export your key, so you can display it on a webpage or paste it in email, type the following com-
mand:
gpg --armor --export you@example.com
You do not see any output, because not only did you export your public key, you redirected the output
to a file called, for example,
have been displayed as the standard output on the monitor screen.)
Now, the file
mykey.asc
to open the file in a pager (type [q] to quit the pager). It should look like the
less mykey.asc
following:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org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=BMEc
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
B.5.1. Exporting to a Keyserver
If you are only writing to a few correspondents, you can export your public key and send it to them
personally. If you correspond with many people, however, distribution of your key can be time con-
suming. Instead, you can use a keyserver.
A keyserver is a repository on the Internet which can store and distribute your public key to anyone
who requests it. Many keyservers are available, and most try to remain synchronized with each other;
. (Without the addition of
mykey.asc
can be inserted into email or exported to a keyserver. To see the key, type
), it is located in your login directory.
revoke.asc
mykey.asc
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, the key would
mykey.asc
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