From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 07:34:01 -0800 (PST)
To: Fyodor Yarochkin <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
Subject: Re: What's a "fingerprint" ?
Message-ID: <849884579.522761.0@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>


 

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