I don't know, but it seems that some people want. On 06.10.12 there has been spam attack against [Limnoria's pastebin] where the pasted message has title which contains some nicks (including mine) from #Limnoria at freenode and then Limnoria bot announces it on #Limnoria and spams people.
What does this have to do with me? I was sleeping when this started around 00:30 Finnish time (UTC+3), but the pasted message claims
```
Pasted by Mkaysi.
```
Everyone knows that I am known as Mkaysi at multiple places, but that paster isn't me. If I pasted something, the paster name would be "Mkaysi".
Maybe I will start signing all my pastes in the future. There is [feature request for pastebinit] about that.
#### Expection
School forces me to send some emails without signing them when I am not at home.
You might have "import-minimal" or "import-clean" in your keyserver-options in your gpg.conf, so you don't see the signatures. If you don't have them, run
*NOTE*: My key contains information, that my preferred keyserver is pool.sks-keyservers.net, so it's used with --refresh-keys with my key even if you speify another keyserver. This isn't the case if you use very old version of my key.
### Why you don't get signatures from some bot certificate authority?
#### [PGP Global Directory]
I have got signature from [PGP Global Directory], it wanted only to confirm my email addresses.
<strong>Enigmail doesn't hide the keyblock unless you import the key</strong>
## Importing keys automatically
To import keys automatically (when you receive email/file/whatever that is signed and you don't have the key), you have two options. Remember that this imports keys of other people too, so you will be seeing less large ugly character messes. :)
### Enigmail
Go to "OpenPGP" --> "Settings" --> "Show Expert Settings" --> "Keyserver" and enter keyserver address to the second box. I recommend pool.sks-keyservers.net as it's the most popular. (Please note that I am using Enigmail in Finnish so I have translated these places from Finnish to English, they might have different names to you).
> pool.sks-keyservers.net
### GnuPG level
If you are using GPG, you can add two lines to your gpg config file. In Linux and Mac that means ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, with Windows it means C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\GnuPG\gpg.conf (or something like that).
If you are worried about space usage of your public keyring, you can add "import-clean" or "import-minimal" after "auto-key-retrieve". The first removes all useless signatures from the key (=signatures from keys that aren't in your keyring) and the second removes all signatures from the key.
I am importing keys fully and I have 118 different public keys in my keyring and the space usage is 4,4M. I am on multiple mailing lists where some people use PGP or GPG.
