can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

Sam Smith smickson at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 10 16:03:53 CEST 2012


I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was talking about with that "finger" stuff. I studied his email and the email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant.

> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:28:04 +0100
> From: markr-gnupg at signal100.com
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?
> 
> On 07/06/2012 11:27, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Wed,  6 Jun 2012 21:54, peter at digitalbrains.com said:
> > 
> > If you look at my OpenPGP mail header you will be pointed to a “finger”
> > address - enter it into your web browser (in case you don't know what
> > finger is) and you will see
> 
> Just as an aside, I presume you are referring to this header line:
> 
> OpenPGP: id=1E42B367; url=finger:wk at g10code.com
> 
> Do you know of any common modern browsers that have finger protocol
> support built in? I wonder, how many people even have a finger client
> installed (that their browser would be able to find)?
> 
> 
> -- 
> MarkR
> 
> PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp
> Key ID: C9C5C162
> 
> 
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