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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:36 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:46:13PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >
> > To import your gpg key into the grimoire keyring:
> > p4 edit gurus.gpg
> > gpg --export $KEY | gpg --import --no-default-keyring --keyring  \
> > /path/to/gurus.gpg
>
> I forgot to add, you should use a RSA pgp key for this so you can use
> SHA512 digests in your signatures. Here's the function I have in my
> ~/.bashrc to create the signatures:
> gurusign() { (
>   local FILE="$1"
>   local NAME="$(basename $1)"
>   local SIG="./$NAME.sig"
>   gpg -o "$SIG" --default-key BCD6570E --personal-digest-preference SHA512
> --detach-sign "$FILE" ) }
>
> Replace BCD6570E with whatever your key ID is :)
> You can give it any path and the signature file will end up in the
> current directory.
>
> > To create the hash you have several options:
> > 1) sha512sum from the hashsum spell
> > 2) openssl >= 0.9.8: openssl dgst -sha512 $FILE
> > 3) with gnupg:
> > gpg --print-md sha512 $FILE
> > that doesn't give the output in the format we want though, here's what I
> > use:
> > gpg --print-md sha512 $FILE | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | tr \\n ' ' | tr -d ' ' |
> > cut -d: -f2

Thanks for the info and the snippet of code.  And thanks to everyone else for 
responding.

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Jason Flatt
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