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- From: patlak@med.uvm.edu (Joe Patlak)
- Subject: re: Public Key Depository
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.030616.15431@uvm.edu>
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- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:06:16 GMT
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- Vasselin Bontchev recently asked if DNS mechanisms could be used to
- distribute public keys.
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- 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.
-
- This seems to work locally (my own tests). For example try
- finger patlak@salus.med.uvm.edu [not much security in this example since
- this particular key is signed only by myself, but still...]
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- Joe Patlak patlak@salus.med.uvm.edu
- Department of Physiology
- University of Vermont (802) 656-8912
- Burlington, VT 05405
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