caff/README

   1 caff  --  CA - fire and forget
   2
   3 caff is a script that helps you in keysigning.  It takes a list of
   4 keyids on the command line, fetches them from a keyserver and calls
   5 GnuPG so that you can sign it.  It then mails each key to all its
   6 email addresses - only including the one UID that we send to in each
   7 mail.
   8
   9 Features:
  10  * Easy to setup.
  11  * Attaches only the very UID that we send to in the mail.
  12  * Prunes the key from all signatures that are not self sigs and
  13    not done by you, thereby greatly reducing the size of mails.
  14  * Sends the mail encrypted if possible, will warn before sending
  15    unencrypted mail (sign only keys)
  16  * Creates proper PGP MIME messages.
  17  * Uses separate GNUPGHOME for all its operations.
  18
  19 Special Requirements:
  20  * GnuPG 1.3.92 or later.
  21
  22 Discussion:
  23
  24 Since we do not upload the new signatures, or import them into our
  25 main keyring, the signature only gets public if:
  26  - the email address is valid
  27  - the person reading the email can decrypt the mail (if it was sent
  28    encrypted).
  29
  30 Therefore we achieve the same level of security as common Challenge
  31 Repsonse systems like CABot, without all the extra hassle of those
  32 systems.
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  36 Dependencies: gnupg (>= 1.3.92), perl, libgnupg-interface-perl, libtext-template-perl, libmime-perl, libmailtools-perl (>= 1.62), mailx
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  38
  39 INSTALLATION NOTES
  40
  41 After creating a ~/.caffrc from the template, caff almost works out of the box.
  42
  43 --
  44 Peter
  45 $Id$