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
  10 Features:
  11  * Easy to setup.
  12  * Attaches only the very UID that we send to in the mail.
  13  * Prunes the key from all signatures that are not self sigs and
  14    not done by you, thereby greatly reducing the size of mails.
  15  * Sends the mail encrypted if possible, will warn before sending
  16    unencrypted mail (sign only keys)
  17  * Creates proper PGP MIME messages.
  18  * Uses separate GNUPGHOME for all its operations.
  19
  20 Caveats:
  21  * Requires a gpg patch for now, until 2 bugs are fixed:
  22      http://bugs.debian.org/252917    gnupg: --with-colons and --edit delsigs
  23      http://bugs.debian.org/254072    gpg should flush stdout before prompting in --edit
  24
  25 Discussion:
  26
  27 Since we do not upload the new signatures, or import them into our
  28 main keyring, the signature only gets public if:
  29  - the email address is valid
  30  - the person reading the email can decrypt the mail (if it was sent
  31    encrypted).
  32
  33 Therefore we achieve the same level of security as common Challenge
  34 Repsonse systems like CABot, without all the extra hassle of those
  35 systems.
  36
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  39 Dependencies: gnupg (>= 1.2), perl, libgnupg-interface-perl, libmime-perl, libmailtools-perl (>= 1.62), mailx
  40
  41 --
  42 Peter
  43 $Id$