I thought that the keys we submit are our *public* keys. Am I mistaken? If that is the case, there is no need for them to be secure. For someone to masquerade as a legitimate user, they would need our *private* keys. It is our individual responsibility to safeguard those.
I suggest that anyone who is worried about the security of their public keys should read up about the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography In this case, the public key is being used for authentication. The one danger that I see in the current use of the public key is that someone could send a key to the admin pretending to be me or Paul, or anyone else. But since I am just a name (having not met any of you in person), that shouldn't really matter. Each of us can be judged by what the changes/enhancements we submit. Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Voice: (888)ISO-SEVO (888)476-7386 Newtown, CT 06470 Fax: (203)426-9138 http://www.MarkKenny.com ....Stuff snipped... So while a switch may have seemed appropriate at the time, personally I think it was probably premature and like Paul - I am unwilling to manually submit keys to a site which requests them via email. So I will remain a lurker rather than becoming more actively involved. It would be interesting to know how many others feel the same? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
