If you remember, we looked this up a few weeks ago, and the fingerprint is
simply the SHA hash of the public key (preceded by a single number giving the
kind of key I think). 

So if you insert your public key, CHK == fingerprint.

On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> 
> > You know, you  could put keys into freenet and use the fingerprint as
> > the file key to get them out.
> > 
> Or, better, use CHK's to insert them, and have a KHK like
> "scgmille at indiana.edu/pgp-key", as well as the fingerprint point to
> that.  Then you fetch by email, calculate the fingerprint, fetch that and
> check for a match.  If you don't have one, don't trust the key (either an
> adversary comprimised one or the other).
> 
>       Scott
> 
> 

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Oskar Sandberg
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