If you're like me and gpg --export -a $KEY is 3000 lines of output due to lots of signatures on your key, try: gpg --export-options export-minimal -a --export

If you're like me and gpg --export -a $KEY is 3000 lines of output due to lots of signatures on your key, try: gpg --export-options export-minimal -a --export $KEY I guess github wants to associate particular accounts with keys, but it seems they could save a lot of cut and paste bother if they supported importing keys from the keyservers.