NAME
caff -- CA - Fire and Forget
SYNOPSIS
caff [-eERS] [-m yes|ask-yes|ask-no|no] [-u yourkeyid] keyid [keyid ..]
DESCRIPTION
CA Fire and Forget is a script that helps you in keysigning. It takes
a list of keyids on the command line, fetches them from a keyserver and
calls GnuPG so that you can sign it. It then mails each key to all its
email addresses - only including the one UID that we send to in each
mail, pruned from all but self sigs and sigs done by you. The mailed
key is encrypted with itself as a means to verify that key belongs to
the recipient.
OPTIONS
-e, --export-old
Export old signatures. Default is to ask the user for each old
signature.
-E, --no-export-old
Do not export old signatures. Default is to ask the user for each
old signature.
-m, --mail yes|ask-yes|ask-no|no
Whether to send mail after signing. Default is to ask, for each
uid, with a default value of yes.
-R, --no-download
Do not retrieve the key to be signed from a keyserver.
-S, --no-sign
Do not sign the keys.
-u yourkeyid, --local-user yourkeyid
Select the key that is used for signing, in case you have more than
one key. To sign with multiple keys at once, separate multiple
keyids by comma. This option requires the key(s) to be defined
through the keyid variable in the configuration file.
--key-file file
Import keys from file. Can be supplied more than once.
FILES
$HOME/.caffrc - configuration file
$HOME/.caff/keys/yyyy-mm-dd/ - processed keys
$HOME/.caff/gnupghome/ - caff’s working dir for gpg
$HOME/.caff/gnupghome/gpg.conf - gpg configuration
useful options include use-agent, keyserver-options, default-cert-
level, etc.
CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS
The configuration file is a perl script that sets values in the hash
%CONFIG. The file is generated when it does not exist.
Example:
$CONFIG{'owner'} = q{Peter Palfrader};
$CONFIG{'email'} = q{peter@palfrader.org};
$CONFIG{'keyid'} = [ qw{DE7AAF6E94C09C7F 62AF4031C82E0039} ];
Required basic settings
owner [string]
Your name. REQUIRED.
email [string]
Your email address, used in From: lines. REQUIRED.
keyid [list of keyids]
A list of your keys. This is used to determine which signatures to
keep in the pruning step. If you select a key using -u it has to
be in this list. REQUIRED.
General settings
caffhome [string]
Base directory for the files caff stores. Default: $HOME/.caff/.
GnuPG settings
gpg [string]
Path to the GnuPG binary. Default: gpg.
gpg-sign [string]
Path to the GnuPG binary which is used to sign keys. Default: what
gpg is set to.
gpg-delsig [string]
Path to the GnuPG binary which is used to split off signatures.
This was needed while the upstream GnuPG was not fixed. Default:
what gpg is set to.
secret-keyring [string]
Path to your secret keyring. Default: $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg.
also-encrypt-to [keyid, or list of keyids]
Additional keyids to encrypt messages to. Default: none.
gpg-sign-args [string]
Additional commands to pass to gpg after the "sign" command.
Default: none.
Keyserver settings
keyserver [string]
Keyserver to download keys from. Default: pool.sks-keyservers.net.
no-download [boolean]
If true, then skip the step of fetching keys from the keyserver.
Default: 0.
key-files [list of files]
A list of files containing keys to be imported.
Signing settings
no-sign [boolean]
If true, then skip the signing step. Default: 0.
ask-sign [boolean]
If true, then pause before continuing to the signing step. This is
useful for offline signing. Default: 0.
export-sig-age [seconds]
Don’t export UIDs by default, on which your latest signature is
older than this age. Default: 24*60*60 (i.e. one day).
local-user [keyid, or list of keyids]
Select the key that is used for signing, in case you have more than
one key. With multiple keyids, sign with each key in turn.
Mail settings
mail [boolean]
Whether to send mails. This is a quad-option, with which you can
set the behaviour: yes always sends, no never sends; ask-yes and
ask-no asks, for each uid, with according defaults for the
question. Default: ask-yes.
In any case, the messages are also written to
$CONFIG{’caffhome’}/keys/
mail-template [string]
Email template which is used as the body text for the email sent
out instead of the default text if specified. The following perl
variables can be used in the template:
{owner} [string]
Your name as specified in the owner setting.
{key} [string]
The keyid of the key you signed.
{@uids} [array]
The UIDs for which signatures are included in the mail.
reply-to [string]
Add a Reply-To: header to messages sent. Default: none.
bcc [string]
Address to send blind carbon copies to when sending mail. Default:
none.
mailer-send [array]
Parameters to pass to Mail::Mailer. This could for example be
$CONFIG{'mailer-send'} = [ 'smtp', Server => 'mail.server', Auth => ['user', 'pass'] ];
to use the perl SMTP client or
$CONFIG{'mailer-send'} = [ 'sendmail', '-o8' ];
to pass arguments to the sendmail program. For more information
run "perldoc Mail::Mailer". Setting this option is strongly
discouraged. Fix your local MTA instead. Default: none.
AUTHORS
Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
WEBSITE
http://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org/
SEE ALSO
gpg(1), pgp-clean(1), /usr/share/doc/signing-party/caff/caffrc.sample.