[Enigmail] First signed message

James Gillespie gillespie.jp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 12:20:06 PDT 2008


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John Clizbe wrote:

> 
> No, John means a link specifically to your key; e.g.,
> https://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=B4D6FE41208D46283DED751E1D04AC4A608D2A10
> 

Thanks. I found it. Your example helped.
> 
> http://www.somedomain.tla/~someuser/my_key.asc
> 
> But neither of these is of benefit in the case of GnuPG or PGP automatically
> fetching a key needed for signature validation; keyservers are still the best
> option for that.
> 

I take it that having the link to my key in my message header suffices
to allow my recipient to validate my signature but that having it on a
keyserver is "best option" because this affords the convenience of
automatic fetching and perhaps helps promote pgp use. Am I on the right
track?

James
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