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[John B]

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On Thursday 24 July 2003 15:54, John Aldrich wrote:

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  I don't think kmail's gpg 'automatically' downloads any keys...does it? I=
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not heard of it before at least. If I want to see the 'green' instead of th=
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'yellow', I manually download and add the key to my keyring (naturally I=20
don't do this very often, since I don't know who these people are, and don'=
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want to have a huge keyring with keys of all these 'unknown' people, heh).

  Another thing, this is sidetracking, I looked up 'John Aldrich' on a=20
keyserver, and got back a good amount of names, 5 or 6 (more or less) of th=
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were 'John Aldrich', and the other 10 or so, were completely different name=
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but every single one of those other names, had the same *exact* key ID (not=
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of John's key ID, but to each other 'except' John)!
  Can anyone explain that to me please? Why/how can all these people have t=
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same exact key ID?=20

  John
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