ca-bot - helpers for doing GPG/PGP keysigning paperwork
Cabot is a collection of small scripts that help do the paperwork which comes
with doing GPG/PGP-Keysigning properly: it sends out challenges, to test for
email address ownership, and collects and verifies responses. It offers
wrappers around gpg(1) for public key download, signing, and upload.
It relies on Frank J. Tobin's CPAN GnuPG Perl module.
First run ca-createsendout(1), giving key IDs on the commandline. Then run ca-sendout(1). Feed the email replies to ca-recv(1). And finally run ca-dosign(1) as a user having write permissions on the dirs and having the private key.
All usermodifyable options are set using the ~/.cabotrc file, which is used
by all four cabot scripts; see ca-config(5).
ca-createsendout(1), ca-sendout(1), ca-recv(1), ca-dosign(1), ca-config(5), ca-bot-noroot(7)
The cabot webpage is at http://www.palfrader.org/cabot/.
The development of cabot is discussed on cabot-devel@@lists.noreply.org , see http://lists.noreply.org/mailman/listinfo/cabot-devel .
Cabot is written by Peter Palfrader, based upon work by Ian Jackson.
This manpage: $Id: ca-bot.pod 126 2004-03-25 10:09:09Z weasel $
Copyright (C) 1998 Ian Jackson, (C) 2001,2003 Peter Palfrader
Cabot is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
Cabot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Privacy Guard; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.