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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:37:39PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> Tavis Ormandy said: |
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> > well, more like |
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> > $ wget -O - -q http://keys.gentoo.org/devname.gpg | gpg --import |
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> No, more like gpg --search-keys devname@g.o or |
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> gpg --recv-keys <fingerprint> |
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> Paul |
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even more like, |
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$ mozilla http://keys.gentoo.org/ |
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<navigate to developers key page, copy and paste fingerprint> |
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$ gpg --search-keys devname@g.o |
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<confirm fingerprint on key server matches key you received> |
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Anybody can publish a key to a keyserver, if your going to use that |
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method you still need to distribute fingerprints and key id's. |
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Yes, in a perfect world everybody would double check everything, but |
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thats not going to happen. |
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by using a finger server, users can be reasonably confident they are |
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getting the correct key. |
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I can see im not convincing you of this idea :) Thanks for your feedback |
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though, very interesting. |
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taviso@××××××××××××.org | finger me for my gpg key. |
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