What are fingerprints?

[J. Michael Ashley]

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On 30 Nov 1999, Jonas Steverud wrote:
> What is the use of fingerprints? I couldn't find anything in the
> documentation.

See Chapter 1, subsection 'Importing a public key' in the GNU Privacy
Handbook.  A discussion of hash functions and what kinds of hash functions
are useful for cryptography is in Chapter 2, section 'Digital signatures'.

Mike

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