On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, LuKreme wrote:

I'm still unclear on how the --gpgkey makes it more secure. If the file is signed, the signature is checked against the public key that I have in pubring.gpg. What does the gpgkey do?

It indicates which key to use to check the signature.

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