Howto Easy PGP Key Creation

June 17, 2010 by rich scadding Leave a Comment

HOWTO: Quick & Easy GPG Key
This HOWTO will take you through a quick & basic PGP Key creation and submission to MIT key servers

First you need to install gnupg and gnupg-agent. In order to create a key, you will also need a real email address.

1. Open a terminal.
2. type in the following code:

gpg --gen-key

3. Then enter a “1″ – to create a standard DSA/ElGamal key. Press Enter.
4. Type in 1024. Press Enter.
5. Type in 0. Press Enter.
6. Enter a y. Press Enter.
7. Type in your Real Name. Press Enter.
8. Type in your REAL email address. Press Enter.
9. Type in Your First Name, followed by “‘s PGP Key”. Press Enter. IE Joe Blogg’s PGP key (without the “”)
10. Type O. Press Enter. It will now create your Key.
11. You will have to give it a “Pass Phrase”. Try to use a password with a mixture of upper and lower case letters as well as numbers to make it secure.

When it’s finished creating your Key, follow these steps:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Type in the following code:

gpg --export -a "User Name" > public.key

3. Open a nautilus window.
4. Find the file “public.key” in your home directory.
5. Right click on the file, left click on open in text editor.
6. Press CTRL+A, then CTRL+C (Select All, Copy)
7. Open http://pgp.mit.edu in a browser window.
8. In the box under the label, “Submit a key” – right click in the box and then left click on paste.
9. Click on “Submit this key to the keyserver!”
10. Go back to http://pgp.mit.edu
11. Type in your name in the Search String box.
12. Highlight and Copy the section of the result page under “User ID” (It should be your name, comment, and email address.)

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New blog, post collating, BBcode, spam, wordpress api key

February 7, 2009 by rich scadding 3 Comments

New Blog
Well, now I have more bandwidth and space on the server, I installed wordpress with the view to consolidate all my other blogs and forums howto guides here in one single place.

Post Collating
The strange thing is, that I could import from Blogger directly from blog-to-blog over the internet, but I couldn’t perform the same easy import from WordPress to WordPress. You need to create a wordpress backup then import that file from your desktop. Now i’m not sure if I missed something, but I couldn’t find the “export” option on my wordpress.com hosted blog.

BBcode Plugin
All my website and blog posts were html so they were easy to import or copy and paste. Thank Devs for the BBcode plugin for WordPress, it meant that I could just copy and paste any useful Howto’s I posted on ther forums here, without having to manually edit all the html tags.

Akismet Spam Blocker
Obviously I setup Akismet straight away, as those bastard scum spammers are always lurking around the corner. It even places a cool Spam Blocked Counter for your sidebar, which shows how many of these scumbags have been sent packing to date. Well, this blog has been up a week, and it has stopped four Casino site spammers already. Shit! the spammers found me even before Google did!!

WordPress Api Key for Self Hosted Blogs
If you want to use Akismet and WordPress stats on your own blog on your own server, you will have to insert an api key. If you haven’t got a WordPress blog, go and sign up for one at wordpress.com. You will get an api key assigned to that blog.

http://en.wordpress.com/api-keys/

Now, if your wordpress.com username is different from the one on you use on your own blog, just create a new user with the same name as on your worpress.com blog, list them as an admin. Now logout, sign in as that user, and insert the api key.

It’ll tell you that this api key is from another user/blog blah blah, just choose associate with this blog and you’re done. Now you can use your api key for Akismet and Blog stats.

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