<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="pgp-publish">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#pgp-keys"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-10-23" status="stub"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.9" date="2013-06-18" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.36.1" date="2020-05-20" status="draft"/>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Aruna</name>
      <email its:translate="no">[email protected]</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>Publish your public keys on key servers, or
    <link xref="pgp-export">export</link> and mail them to your friends.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Share your public keys</title>

  <p>If you want people to send you encrypted communication, you must share
  your <gui>GnuPG key</gui> with them. To share your key with a selected few
  people, <link xref="pgp-export">export it</link> and mail
  the resulting keyfile to them. To allow anyone to
  <link xref="pgp-retrieve-remote">retrieve</link> and use your public key,
  publish it on a key server.</p>

  <steps>
    <title>How do I publish my key on a key server?</title>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui>GnuPG keys</gui> from the left side panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>From the list, select the <gui>Personal PGP key</gui> you want to
      publish.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press the menu button <gui>☰</gui> in the header bar.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Sync and publish keys…</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press the <gui style="button">Key Servers</gui> button to see the list
      of key servers on which you can publish your public key.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>To publish your key on a key server, select the key server from the
      <gui>Publish keys to</gui> menu.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Close the <gui>Preferences</gui> window to go back to the previous
      dialog.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Sync</gui> to finish.</p>
    </item>
   <!-- <item>
      <p>Tick the
      <gui style="checkbox">Automatically retrieve keys from key servers</gui>
      checkbox to retrieve any key that is published on the server you have
      selected in the previous step. You can also tick the
      <gui style="checkbox">Automatically sync modified keys with key servers</gui>
      checkbox to ensure that any modifications to a key on the key server,
      like a signature, are updated on your copy of the key too.</p>
      Not sure about this - Aruna 18/08/2013
    </item>-->
  </steps>

  <note style="important">
    <p>You need to be connected to the Internet while publishing your keys.</p>
  </note>

  <note style="info">
    <title>What is a keyserver?</title>
    <p>Key servers are computers that store copies of public encryption keys
    submitted to them, and share these copies with other key servers through
    the Internet.</p>
  </note>

</page>