-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Stewart wrote:
In particular, if you publish the key with your first posting, then you can demonstrate later that you're the poster who used that name. Thus, Checkered Daemon announced his nym with a key, and since I could find no other record of use of that name, I was willing to sign that key 0x50EC521D as his (I do use a separate key for signing nyms; I've signed them for a few other people such as Black Unicorn, some of whom I've since met in person.) You can also get similar results by posting your key fingerprint in your messages and sending the key to a keyserver, and it's a bit more compact, but for a first posting using a nym it's worthwhile to include the key.
Excellent advice, Bill! I am including the key (below) for my new nym, which has not been used before, and would like for people to sign it and send the signed key to the list. This way, people will know by the signature, that it is, indeed: Necessarily Knot, ME - -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 lQD4AzRmZWoAAAECAMnJrqd/TERCLeFscdgNvwVxrVG4tRm0VThMEXXkctCGMaUD jcETxcV0ZseRUcyUKfqlLd3CRsIwClozlWHHR7EABREAAfwJ5D1Ecilit/Mwsn4N GcWZXWpg3mM6/Epzs2pEhi3I926ZiWPB1DKmdZR4nVemsnwv47SWLJyCnE4sben5 h8oHAQDTFaJDJSN7+9NToOE4NFiruAXXMIHEQ6ZH21oW1sYSiwEA9LmhvfahDVKo 1/CMtxxozAtG8rWycBYVIVrkDKiVgjMBAKeB2VY/f7tzmv7KxUUtN9607+CQlWPp E3HBLTlwtuRAUxC0FU5lY2Vzc2FyaWx5IEtub3R0LCBNRQ== =caeb - -----END PGP MESSAGE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNGZSSApaM5Vhx0exAQHWcQH/VHc1j8RenSUsPd+UJMCcrPWS5Euu+VVn hD4zGvaJ9irsyh1eKDLbMOUO5dOwxQuOQGDI5rB6cRuoh9ULdQjQyw== =c+x0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----