On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20010419T170915+0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On 18 Apr 2001, James Troup wrote: > > > making broken assumptions based on random things like the signature on > > > the file. > > > > "A gpg signature is a random thing" --Debian gnupg maintainer. > > > > Great quote! :-) > > Except that it's not a quote (don't agree with me? show me where he > used those exact words).
Of course it is not a quote, hence the ":-)". But this does not change what he said: "[...] based on random things like the signature on the file." Being a gpg signature the deliberate and internally consistent thing it is, the only context I can think of it to be "random" is the statistical distribution of the characters in its base64 enconding.
