What's a "fingerprint" ?

paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 6 07:12:47 PST 1996



> Speaking about PGP.. Guys...
> Whats fingerprint is need for ? And how to create it ?

A key fingerprint is a unique identifier for an individual PGP key, 
it is used for verifying that a recieved key is authentic before 
signing it, to generate a PGP key fingerprint use pgp -kvc <username>


 

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