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xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="pgp-publish">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#pgp-keys"/>
<revision version="0.1" date="2011-10-23" status="stub"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.9" date="2013-06-18" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.36.1" date="2020-05-20" status="draft"/>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Aruna</name>
<email its:translate="no">aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<desc>Publish your public keys on key servers, or
<link xref="pgp-export">export</link> and mail them to your friends.</desc>
</info>
<title>Share your public keys</title>
<p>If you want people to send you encrypted communication, you must share
your <gui>GnuPG key</gui> with them. To share your key with a selected few
people, <link xref="pgp-export">export it</link> and mail
the resulting keyfile to them. To allow anyone to
<link xref="pgp-retrieve-remote">retrieve</link> and use your public key,
publish it on a key server.</p>
<steps>
<title>How do I publish my key on a key server?</title>
<item>
<p>Select <gui>GnuPG keys</gui> from the left side panel.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>From the list, select the <gui>Personal PGP key</gui> you want to
publish.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press the menu button <gui>☰</gui> in the header bar.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Sync and publish keys…</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press the <gui style="button">Key Servers</gui> button to see the list
of key servers on which you can publish your public key.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>To publish your key on a key server, select the key server from the
<gui>Publish keys to</gui> menu.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Close the <gui>Preferences</gui> window to go back to the previous
dialog.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press <gui style="button">Sync</gui> to finish.</p>
</item>
<!-- <item>
<p>Tick the
<gui style="checkbox">Automatically retrieve keys from key servers</gui>
checkbox to retrieve any key that is published on the server you have
selected in the previous step. You can also tick the
<gui style="checkbox">Automatically sync modified keys with key servers</gui>
checkbox to ensure that any modifications to a key on the key server,
like a signature, are updated on your copy of the key too.</p>
Not sure about this - Aruna 18/08/2013
</item>-->
</steps>
<note style="important">
<p>You need to be connected to the Internet while publishing your keys.</p>
</note>
<note style="info">
<title>What is a keyserver?</title>
<p>Key servers are computers that store copies of public encryption keys
submitted to them, and share these copies with other key servers through
the Internet.</p>
</note>
</page>
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