Including public key

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Jul 28 04:38:01 CEST 2011


On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Len Cooley wrote:

> Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to
> attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as below?

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish.  In my experience, it's generally felt to be somewhat impolite (just as any 32+ line .sig file would be), especially when a simple link to the keyserver is so easy to include.

David




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