From: Jim Gillogly <jim@rand.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:37:04 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP key fingerprints.
In-Reply-To: <199403230014.AA19769@comm.Tandem.COM>
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> GRABOW_GEOFFREY@tandem.com writes:
> Is there any way to get PGP to display the fingerprint of a public ke
> before you add it to your keyring?  I know that the -kvc command displays

I sometimes add them to a temporary keyring (pgp -ka file.asc testring)
and then do pgp -kvc "*" testring so I can see what I'm about to stick in
there.  I didn't bother before somebody or other (was that you, Hal?)
demonstrated that he could change the name on Phil's PGP key, and I didn't
want it polluting my <real> keyring.

	Jim Gillogly
	Sterday, 1 Astron S.R. 1994, 16:36