On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Steven Alligood <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/4/11 10:14 AM, Matthew Walker wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 9:37 am, Steven Alligood wrote: >>> On 5/3/11 5:20 PM, Robert Merrill wrote: >>>> >>>> MD5 Hash of this message goes here >>>> Public Key of my encrypted Md5 hash of this message goes here >>> >>> ok, he *did* ask for this.
Yes, I did ask for it (grin). Of course, in jest. >>> Technically, an MD5 hash is not encrypted. It's Hashed. I guess what I meant to say was that I encrypted the result of my MD5 hashing function with my private key and was reprinting the public key here so someone could verify that my MD5 hash had not been compromised... which is, of course, foolishness except for overly redundant two-factor authentication (as Jessie pointed out). > That could be what he meant, but I assumed that he was sane. :) I didn;t realize sanity was also a requirement for membership in PLUG! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
