Am I Missing Something?

[Arnaud Ongenae]

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First of all, I don't think it's a good thing to have a key that never
expire especially for the first one (when we don't really understand
every aspect of OpenPGP)
Secondly, It seems good, you now have a public private key. You can
export your public key to give it to other person so they would be
able to crypt mail they want to sent to you.
Enigmail allow the generation of the key it's maybe easier than the
terminal for new users, you can therefore use enigmail to export and
send your public key to other people.

You can have a try with me if you want and send me your public key
(it's useless to do those test on the list).

_-Arnaud-_

ps: In thunderbird, when you look at this mail, you can clic on the
little pen in the down right of the screen and import my public key
from any keyserver.

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2008/5/29 Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com>:
> I am trying to generate a key and start using it with Mozilla Thunderbird /
> Enigmail & I am obviously missing something. I generated a key on my system
> using the following command:
>
> cwilliams at tunafish:~$ gpg --gen-key
>
> You can see below exactly what I did and I am now unclear once I created
> this key how to start using it with my email client. Am I missing something?
>
> Please select what kind of key you want:
>    (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
>    (2) DSA (sign only)
>    (5) RSA (sign only)
> Your selection? 1
> DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
> ELG-E keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
> What keysize do you want? (2048)
> Requested keysize is 2048 bits
> Please specify how long the key should be valid.
>          0 = key does not expire
>       <n>  = key expires in n days
>       <n>w = key expires in n weeks
>       <n>m = key expires in n months
>       <n>y = key expires in n years
> Key is valid for? (0)
> Key does not expire at all
> Is this correct? (y/N) y
>
> Real name: Carlos Williams
> Email address: cwilliams at example.org
> Comment:
> You selected this USER-ID:
>     "Carlos Williams <cwilliams at example.org>"
>
> Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
> You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
>
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
> ..+++++.++++++++++++++++++++..++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++....+++++..+++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...+++++..+++++++++++++++>....+++++.+++++>+++++....+++++^^^
> gpg: key XXXXXXX marked as ultimately trusted
> public and secret key created and signed.
>
> gpg: checking the trustdb
> gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
> gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
> pub   1024D/XXXXXX 2008-05-29
>       Key fingerprint = 5646 E345 DE00 5E55 555C  5555 E5AD 5F0C C5B5 55CB
> uid                  Carlos Williams <cwilliams at example.org>
> sub   2048g/XXXXXXX 2008-05-29
>
> Now I can see the following when I list the keys:
>
> cwilliams at tunafish:~$ gpg --list-keys
> /home/carl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> ----------------------------------
> pub   1024D/XXXXXXX 2008-05-29
> uid                  Carlos Williams <cwilliams at example.org>
> sub   2048g/XXXXXXX 2008-05-29
>
> Thanks for any help!
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