On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:
> I am using pgp5 on a Linux box. I am not a large user of pgp right now,
> because I basically don't have the time to fiddle with it...... have one
> question for now. I notice that many signed messages have something of a
> very short key. I have fiddled with pgp enough in the past to realize
> that you can't do with pgp5 in unix. Is this the case? I only have a
> long key.. 1024 bit, or 768
Could you be referring to the PGP fingerprints? Fingerprints aren't
signing a message, but more a way of making sure that the key that Bob
uses is the same key that you have for Bob. Here's an example of a PGP
fingerprint: 9702 984B 27CF 96A4 F4A5 4F9B FA9A BDED A186 B570
Jag
