can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

david at gbenet.com david at gbenet.com
Thu Jun 7 18:29:02 CEST 2012


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On 07/06/12 17:14, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 6/7/12 11:18 AM, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> To put matters simply, (1) Verner's key is not the same as gnupg's key (2) You can
>> confirm the validity of Verner's key by meeting him (3) you can confirm that gnupg is
>> running on your computer gpg/2 --version..
> 
> As an FYI, you are consistently misspelling Werner's name.  It's Werner, not Verner.
> 
>> As to the question: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey? The answer
>> is no. Why? It is not a person but a bit of software.
> 
> The certificate belongs to someone.  If Werner were to appear before me with his
> passport and said "I control the certificates corresponding to these email addresses"
> and gave me their fingerprints, I would consider those certificates to be fully
> validated.
> 
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It's the German in me :)

David

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