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 > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
