key fingerprints - a practice question

William L Anderson band@acm.org
Mon Jul 28 12:49:01 2003


What is (are) the established practice(s) for distributing key
fingerprints?

I used to see mail that had fingerprints as part of message
signatures, but this doesn't seem to be very common now. Are there
security issues here?

Or is it a better practice to simply sign messages?

Bill Anderson