On 4/4/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 19:33, "Lord Sauron"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user]
> Beautification - Splash':
> > PS:  I'm playing with this GPG stuff...  I want to see if any of you
> > can use [verify] this.  I'm just curious...  I had some nut case
> > ghosting off of my domain and email and then emailing some friends.  I
> > was not happy.  Someone suggested signing my messages.  So, I'm
> > trying.  Tell me if I'm doing it right if it's conveinient.
>
> You sent two copies of your message, one signed, the other not.  You also
> didn't publish your public key on any keyserver that my kmail polls for
> keys (I think I poll 6 servers, though at least 3 of other shares keys
> among themselves, too).

So that's what people are talking about whenever they say there's
gonna be a "public key signing!"  I've been idly wondering what that
could be.

Okay...  that makes sense now.

Don't laugh - it was my very first try and encryption.

> This message is validly singed, although probably by a key you don't trust
> (nor should you until to verify the key actually belongs to the person it
> claims to).

Most key servers use hardened linux or SE Linux, right?  Since that is
what they're supposed to be for?  I think I could scrape together
another cheap-o server to make into my own key server...  that'd be
cool.  If nothing else it'd be nice to play with it a bit : )

> --
> "If there's one thing we've established over the years,
> it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
> clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
> -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

I honestly hope you're just joking.  Really, the world gets much
scarier when that is true...  <withdraws into own little programmer
world where everything is written in C and MS doens't exsist>

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