Intro
- You have a private key and a public key, which you generate (your keypair).
- People use your public key to send you encrypted messages that only you can open via the magic of crypto!
- You decrypt these messages with your private key, which only you have access to.
- But first, you must share your public key, either directly or by uploading it to a keyserver.
- If it's on a keyserver, they must download it from the keyserver.
- If it was a file, they can import it manually.
- Now they can sign the key and send the key back to the keyserver.
- Now people can see that you believe that key to be valid, which improves the chances of it being a valid key! (web of trust)
Links:
Keysigning commands
Keysigning HOWTO
