On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote:

> The main thing is that you are sure you have the right public key.
> So, you could pipe the public key through sha512sum or something and
> recite the hash over the phone to be sure it's the same at both ends.
> The public key doesn't need to be secret.


Those are the important bits. One of the great things about public/private keys 
is it does not matter who has the public key. It only matters who has the 
private key. Many people have posted their public key on their web site, etc. 

Russell Johnson
r...@dimstar.net



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