What can I expect at a Key Signing party?

[Nick Andriash]

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Hello Andrew McDonald,

On Sunday, October 14 2001 at 06:28 AM PDT, you wrote:

> When I get home I download their key and check the fingerprint against
> the slip of paper. I then usually e-mail them a challenge (something
> like the output of "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 | od -x -Ax")
> which they return signed by their public key.

What is the purpose of the "challenge"? What is it? What would having
them return that to you tell you about them that you don't already know? 


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Nick

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