Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Holly Bostick schrieb:
> Jason Ausmus schreef:
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar
>>> [mailto:listen@alexander.skwar.name] Sent: Sunday, November 20,
>>> 2005 3:48 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:
>>> [gentoo-user] how to create a pgp signature
>>> 
>>> You're answer was to a different question.
>> 
>> 
>> Whose answer was to a different question?
>> 
>> 
>>> Ralph Slooten schrieb:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> gpg --gen-key
>>> 
>>> Wrong.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> can anybody tell me methode to create my own pgp signature?
>>> 
>>> That's the question.
>> 
>> 
>> Was the answer Ralph gave not correct?  I don't understand what
>> you're trying to say...
>> 
>> 
>>> Alexander Skwar
>>> 
>>> Posting out-of-order makes it easy to follow context.
>> 
> 
> Alexander may have been complaining about the top-posting,

Yep.

> or maybe the
> OP was not completely clear in the question,

Hm, possible as well, yes.

> or maybe Ralph
> misunderstood the difference between a /key pair/ and a /signature/:

That's what I assumed.

> Commands:
> 
> ==> -s, --sign [file]             make a signature

Yep. As I said - see the last line of my mail before the
mailinglist signature :) I don't think that it is helpful to
read  man pages or help output to people.

> So if the question really does relate to creating a signature, Ralph was
> wrong. If the question was wrong, and a key pair needs to be generated
> in order to sign something, then Ralph was right.

Yes.

> However, other than pointing this out by the simple expedient of
> confusing everyone further, Alexander's reply was less than helpful,
> since it neither pointed out why the answer given was presumably not
> correct, 

Uhm. Yes, I did not point that out. Why and how should I? OP
asked, how a signature can be created. That's a clear question.
I don't know how to explain, why --gen-key is the wrong answer.
It's just so plain totally wrong, that I just don't know how
to explain it.

> or provided a correct answer if the answer given was in fact
> not correct.

Oh, I did not? What about the "-s"? How's that not the "sign command"?

> .... but everybody could just read the man page and work it out for
> themselves, of course :) .

Or the help output. I wrote "gpg --help | grep 'make a'" which will,
among other things, return "-s". But that's not correct?

Alexander Skwar
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