Signing keys plays an important role in the development and distribution of pilot-link. Not only does it help you verify that the files you download from this website were actually created by me,
it also ensures that they were never tampered with or modified in-transit.

GnuPG stands for "GNU Privacy Guard" and, like PGP, is primarily used to provide electronic privacy. Both GnuPG and PGP make it possible for individuals to send private messages over the Internet -- messages that are private because they are encrypted. This encryption works by using public key encryption for encoding the private messages at one end of the connection and decoding them at the other.

Public key encryption always involves the use of two keys -- one private and never revealed by its owner, the other public and shared without concern. These keys are created in a single operation and are intimately related. You can think of them as opposites: one undoes what the other does. When a message is encrypted with one of the keys, it can only be decrypted with the other. This makes it possible for someone to encrypt a message that can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. It also makes it possible for someone to decrypt a message and know that it can only have been encrypted by one individual. Depending on how it is used, therefore, public key encryption gives us privacy or sender authentication -- as long as private keys remain private.

For more info about GPG, check out the GPG Home Page.

This is my GPG public key. Please use it for anything you might send me, or to verify any current or future pilot-link releases.

This key is also available on various keyservers, such as this one.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Key fingerprint = 125A 3A28 0F57 72F7 AF7B 67DF 9114 0446 7075 AE4A

To import this key into your own keyring, simply save the key below to a plain text file (such as one called 'keys.asc', for an "ASCII" key file), and invoke the following command:

gpg --import key.asc

Alternately, if your browser supports the MIME type of application/pgp-keys, you can click here to import it directly.

You can add this support directly into your ~/.mailcap file (which your browser reads), by adding or editing the following line:

application/pgp-keys; gpg --import < %s | more; needsterminal

If you know me (and can verify that this key came from me), please sign my key and mail
me a copy of the signature, so I can add you to my public keyring.

To verify a release of pilot-link with this key, download the tarball of pilot-link and the associated .sig, .asc, or .gpg key that it was signed with, and execute the following command:

gpg --verify pilot-link-1.0.tar.gz.asc pilot-link-1.0.tar.gz

By verifying a file with a digital signature, you verify the source of the file. In other words, you can be certain that the file came from me, packaged by me, and was not tampered in any way by any third-parties.

Please don't forget to upload your key to the nearest PGP/GPG keyserver, after signing, so that the Web of Trust is extended and strengthened.

Thanks again for your continued support of the pilot-link project.