can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat Jun 9 10:19:37 CEST 2012


On Fri,  8 Jun 2012 23:41, smickson at hotmail.com said:

> Another thing is that downloading the key from that link you provided
> is no guarantee of safety in and of itself either because the page is
> not being hosted over SSL with confirmed identity information. So

That is not relevant.  The key (correct OpenPGP term is “keyblock” but
sometimes also called “certificate”) is in itself secure; the included
self-signature and signatures from other people shall be used to
evaluate the identity of the key owner.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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