From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
To: Fyodor Yarochkin <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
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Raw Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 07:12:47 -0800 (PST)
From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 07:12:47 -0800 (PST)
To: Fyodor Yarochkin <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
Subject: Re: What's a "fingerprint" ?
Message-ID: <849884578.522759.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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> Speaking about PGP.. Guys...
> Whats fingerprint is need for ? And how to create it ?
A key fingerprint is a unique identifier for an individual PGP key,
it is used for verifying that a recieved key is authentic before
signing it, to generate a PGP key fingerprint use pgp -kvc <username>
Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security
Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org
Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/
Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1
"Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"
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