Unattended signing

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Feb 27 16:39:21 CET 2015


On Fri 2015-02-27 03:07:39 -0500, MFPA wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2015 at 10:16:20 PM, in
> <mid:87sidvt0p7.fsf at alice.fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> That is, only a malicious person who manages to
>> compromise that key material can make signatures with
>> it.  So why are you keeping it around?
>
> To verify existing signatures?

Signatures are verified with the public part of the key.  I was only
suggesting to destroy the secret part of the key.

           --dkg



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