Walt Mankowski on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:47:34 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] GPG signature question


On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:31:06PM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> The signature includes a checksum of what it signed.

I believe it also contains the sender's fingerprint so that it knows
which public key to use to check it against.

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Walter C. Mankowski
Senior Software Engineer	Myxa Corporation
phone: (215) 914-2626		fax: (215) 938-0235
email: walt@myxa.com		http://www.myxa.com


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