[Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

mailx works just fine.
Possibly one could create an mbox in the drafts folder. But I think thr
bsmtp with either sendmail or mailx works fine.
A couple of things I would like to do is:
1. send key only to the primary email address on the key.
2. send in real time 1 message per recipient/key. The advantage here is
that that the script sends the email rather than writes a shar.
2a. Similar to above except that it sends to all recipients on the key
with 1 call to mailx.
3. There are different versions of the command line email. Make sure the
script works on most Linux distros.
4. Spawn a gpg agent to reduce the number of pass phrases. Not sure
while my running gpg-agent did not work in this context since I have one
running.
5. Don't forget about the script until next year like I did :-)


On 09/26/2011 04:37 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Suggestions for other options are welcome. One that just occurred to me
> would be to generate an mbox file instead of a bsmtp file. Perhaps the
> mbox file could somehow be passed into an MUA such as Thunderbird
> in such a way as to trick the MUA into sending the batch of messages?
>
> For now, one can just copy and paste the generated messages.With only
> a small handful of keys to be signed, it's a relatively small chore.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>> I still had the scripts of the past few years, but I found on my system,
>> I have sendmail disabled because of port forwarding, and the resulting
>> shar did not work, so the script I am using uses the mailx client.
>>
>> On 09/25/2011 09:36 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>>> Apparently some people didn't receive the attached bash script I had sent
>>> to the list, so I've added it to the BLU website. You can find it at
>>>
>>>     http://blu.org/meetings/2011/09/email-signed-keys.txt
>>>
>>> The script scrapes the BLU website to find the date of the most recent
>>> BLU keysigning party, and uses the first email address it finds on your
>>> signing key as the sender address. The script will walk you through the
>>> process of signing each keyid you specify on the command line, fetching
>>> each key from subkeys.php.net before asking if you want to sign it.
>>> The script then generates a Batch-SMTP shar archive file containing
>>> email messages to send each key to the email addresses found on the
>>> key's uids, after exporting and encrypting the key so that only someone
>>> with access to the corresponding secret key can read the message.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> Err, I don't use PGP, but I didn't see an attachment at my end.
>>>> Perhaps the list software strips attachments?
>>>>
>>>> Bill Bogstad
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:38 AM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>>> Attached is my bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigning party.
>>>>> Usage:
>>>>>
>>>>>    email-signed-keys.sh [ --local-user keyid ] keyid keyid keyid ....
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to sign with a secret key other than your default secret key,
>>>>> use the "--local-user" option.
>>>>>
>>>>> The script prompts you to sign each key listed on the command line,
>>>>> then produces a BSMTP (batch smtp) shar archive to email the
>>>>> signed and encrypted keys to their owners so that only the person
>>>>> who has each secret key can read the corresponding email.
>>>>>
>>>>> To avoid having to retype your pass phrase multiple times, it helps
>>>>> to run gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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