Holly Bostick schrieb: > Jason Ausmus schreef: >>> -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
