[ale] GPG Key Signing?

David Tomaschik david at systemoverlord.com
Thu Feb 17 17:34:26 EST 2011


On 02/17/2011 05:21 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 16:49 -0500, David Tomaschik wrote:
>>
>> If anyone is interested, I will have my fingerprint & ID with me at
>> the meeting tonight.  I'm happy to sign keys (when I get home to my
>> offline certify key) and would appreciate having mine signed (since I
>> recently updated my key). 
> 
> Will anyone sign my key if I just bring the fingerprint?  My key is
> pretty readily available material via the network...
> 
> My key is two lines longer than two fully-printed pages on a dot matrix
> printer.  Probably a bit longer than three pages printed on my laser,
> since I can't print to my dot matrix at the moment...
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 

I personally have no interest in seeing the full key.  I'm certainly not
doing a line-by-line comparison on the key material.  Since the
fingerprint is a SHA-1 hash, I'm willing to take the odds on a 2^160
collision.  :)


-- 
David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1
System Administrator/Open Source Advocate
OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B
http://systemoverlord.com
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