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- 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
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- 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
-
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