> If you remember, we looked this up a few weeks ago, and the fingerprint is
> simply the SHA hash of the public key (preceded by a single number giving the
> kind of key I think).
>
> So if you insert your public key, CHK == fingerprint.
Not if you wind up inserting the text version. I'm going to check on
that, but my guess is, with the PGP headers and everything else, they
won't be equal.
Scott
>
> On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > You know, you could put keys into freenet and use the fingerprint as
> > > the file key to get them out.
> > >
> > Or, better, use CHK's to insert them, and have a KHK like
> > "scgmille at indiana.edu/pgp-key", as well as the fingerprint point to
> > that. Then you fetch by email, calculate the fingerprint, fetch that and
> > check for a match. If you don't have one, don't trust the key (either an
> > adversary comprimised one or the other).
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
>
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