🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: sci.crypt
Article #2963

Re: Public Key Depository

#2963
From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:24
34 lines
1896 bytes
-----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
Technical Details
Message-ID: <bontchev.728169870@fbihh>
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
References: <1993Jan23.030616.15431@uvm.edu>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
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