On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:19:18PM +0000, Steven Murdoch wrote:
> 
> They two things you need to convince us are:

3) That the person owning the PGP key reads the email addresses of all
   the UIDs on the key you're willing to sign.  I verify this by sending
   a PGP-encrypted email to that address with a random string (I've seen
   folks use pwgen, others do an md5sum of a block from /dev/random).
   If I receive the same random string back, I can be relateively sure
   that the person who's key I'm about to sign does read that email
   address.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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