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Article #2963Re: Public Key Depository
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:24
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:24
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:24:30 GMT patlak@med.uvm.edu (Joe Patlak) writes: > Would it not be equally acceptable to put your public key in a .plan > file so that it would be listed by the finger program. If you need a > public key from an individual who's machine you know, finger > individual@machine would deliver it to you. Nah, doesn't work... :-( Several sites (including ours) have disabled the possibility to be fingered from the net, for security reasons... Another idea is to design a new protocol, similar to that of finger, but simpler, which does only one thing - returns the public key of a particular user. Any volunteers to write the appropriate RFC? Regards, Vesselin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.1 iQCVAgUBK2b+xjZWl8Yy3ZjZAQFxxwP+PK4dZn7TkADP1pZfR8/MKwFgxaYwUwH6 7GJU9yOSlnqFNdVYeIbUxxoovmaWMkojyyUphEVntz8KwMDcl3AhcQJCy7zTANt2 9xDm0n0RjQFiXJqAy/8CbkhBly8lBKVINO9rbqZ65YuwUwF5PynGCtvC1qI1Ed9r kN9EnjVIpqU= =ficY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN < PGP 2.1 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!Sirius.dfn.de!news.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE!rzsun2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de!fbihh!bontchev From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) Subject: Re: Public Key Depository Message-ID: <bontchev.728169870@fbihh> Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News) Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg References: <1993Jan23.030616.15431@uvm.edu> Date: 27 Jan 93 21:24:30 GMT Lines: 34