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Publicizing Your Key
If you use PGP, the software automatically publicizes your key
in the PGP Global Directory (aka “The PGP Corporation’s
Keyserver”). As a GnuPG user, you can choose any key publiciz-
ing method from “don’t publicize” to “broadcast to the world.”
The standard ways include posting on a web page or other
Internet medium (finger, ftp, and so on), or exporting to a
keyserver. We’ll look at both.
Text Exports
While your public key is stored in the file pubring.gpg in your
GnuPG home directory, don’t just put this file out on your web
page! It also contains all the other public keys you’ve added to
your keyring. OpenPGP defines ...