Signing a public key

Posted by Gatura on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Gatura
Published on 2010-05-12T06:15:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 6:25 UTC
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Am not sure where this is the right place to ask this

Someone has asked me to sign their public key, how do i do that?

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