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Maintainer: Sascha Steinbiss <satta@debian.org>
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Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
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python-distutils-extra,
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Standards-Version: 3.9.8
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Homepage: https://github.com/gnome-keysign/gnome-keysign
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Package: gnome-keysign
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Depends: ${python:Depends},
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gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0,
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gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad,
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gstreamer1.0-plugins-good,
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Description: easy signing of OpenPGP keys over the local network
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GNOME Keysign is a tool for signing OpenPGP keys.
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Its purpose is to ease signing other peoples' keys. It is similar to caff,
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PIUS, or monkeysign. In fact, it is influenced a lot by these tools and
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either reimplements ideas or reuses code. Consider either of the above
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mentioned tools when you need a much more mature codebase.
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In contrast to caff or monkeysign, this tool enables you to sign a key
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without contacting a key server. It downloads an authenticated copy of the
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key from the other party. For now, the key is authenticated by its fingerprint
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which is securely transferred via a QR code. Alternatively, the user may type
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the fingerprint manually, assuming that it has been transferred securely via
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After having obtained an authentic copy of the key, its UIDs are signed. The
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signatures are then encrypted and sent via email. In contrast to monkeysign,
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xdg-email is used to pop up a pre-filled email composer windows of the mail
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client the user has configured to use. This greatly reduces complexity as no
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SMTP configuration needs to be obtained and gives the user a well known
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