So I was browsing the documentation this morning when I came across this documentation for the --fingerprint flag:
"You want to see "Fingerprints" to ensure that somebody is really the person they claim (like in a telephone call). This command will result in a list of relatively small numbers." I'm not really sure how this would work in real life. For example, if I have John Smiths key I can type gpg --fingerprint "John Smith" and that will print out his key fingerprint. This would work for anyone else with John Smith's key as well. So let's say I'm on the phone with someone I think is John Smith but wanted to verify using his key fingerprint. How would asking him to tell it to me mean anything since ANYONE can get his fingerprint as long as they have his key? Thanks! Anthony _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
