how to register with pypi

[Phlip]

Pythonistas:

I'm stuck on the "PGP Key ID". When I whip out my trusty Ubuntu and run pgp -kg,
I get a 16-digit "DSA / EIGamal" key.

When I enter it into http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=register_form , I get
a helpful "PGP Key ID is invalid".

Should I try a key of some other algorithm?

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

I'm stuck on the "PGP Key ID". When I whip out my trusty Ubuntu and run

pgp -kg, I get a 16-digit "DSA / EIGamal" key.

When I enter it into http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=register_form
, I get a helpful "PGP Key ID is invalid".

Should I try a key of some other algorithm?

If you merely try to register with PyPI, you don't need to provide a PGP
key id at all.

The key ID should be an eight-digit string, such as EA5BBD71 (i.e. a
32-bit key ID).

Regards,
Martin

 

[Phlip]

If you merely try to register with PyPI, you don't need to provide a PGP
key id at all.

I want to upload a crypto library I invented.

That's a joke. But I want to upload a library.

The key ID should be an eight-digit string, such as EA5BBD71 (i.e. a
32-bit key ID).

pretend I was someone who had never ever used PGP before.

pgp -kg, then what?

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

The key ID should be an eight-digit string, such as EA5BBD71 (i.e. a

pretend I was someone who had never ever used PGP before.

pgp -kg, then what?

I don't have pgp, only gpg. In gpg --list-keys, it's the 32-bit ID
that gets listed. Try -kv.

If you have never used PGP before, you *really* shouldn't register
a PGP key ID in PyPI. I suppose your key doesn't have any counter
signatures, anyway.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Phlip]

If you have never used PGP before, you *really* shouldn't register

a PGP key ID in PyPI. I suppose your key doesn't have any counter
signatures, anyway.

Nope, thanks, I'm already in. The pypi page could mark the field "optional". I
just associated it, conceptually, with the Github SSH key, and with passwordless
login in general, and assumed it was required...