NAME
    ca-bot - helpers for doing GPG/PGP keysigning paperwork

INTRODUCTION
    Cabot is a collection of small scripts that help do the paperwork which
    comes with doing GPG/PGP-Keysigning properly: it sends out challenges,
    to test for email address ownership, and collects and verifies
    responses. It offers wrappers around gpg(1) for public key download,
    signing, and upload.

    It relies on Frank J. Tobin's CPAN GnuPG Perl module.

USAGE
    First run ca-createsendout(1), giving key IDs on the commandline. Then
    run ca-sendout(1). Feed the email replies to ca-recv(1). And finally run
    ca-dosign(1) as a user having write permissions on the dirs and having
    the private key.

    All usermodifyable options are set using the "~/.cabotrc" file, which is
    used by all four cabot scripts; see ca-config(5).

SEE ALSO
    ca-createsendout(1), ca-sendout(1), ca-recv(1), ca-dosign(1),
    ca-config(5), ca-bot-noroot(7)

    The cabot webpage is at http://www.palfrader.org/cabot/.

    The development of cabot is discussed on cabot-devel@@lists.noreply.org
    , see http://lists.noreply.org/mailman/listinfo/cabot-devel .

AUTHORS
    Cabot is written by Peter Palfrader, based upon work by Ian Jackson.

VERSION
    This manpage: $Id: ca-bot.pod 126 2004-03-25 10:09:09Z weasel $

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 1998 Ian Jackson, (C) 2001,2003 Peter Palfrader

    Cabot is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
    Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
    version.

    Cabot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
    WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
    more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with GNU Privacy Guard; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
    Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

