[Enigmail] How to use fingerprints?

Alexander Dahl post at lespocky.de
Thu Sep 4 08:20:07 PDT 2008


Hi,

> Some of my mates have attached their fingerprint in the mail sinature.
> How can I use it? As I've understood it, I can get he complete key with
> it, but how?

Take the last 8 digits as a key ID and pull it from a keyserver. As you
can see with the fingerprint in my signature below: take CC87 10D0 and
write it as 0xCC8710D0 when requesting from a keyserver. This doesn't
apply to some old keys, but most should do well.

Greets
Alex

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GnuPG-FP: 02C8 A590 7FE5 CA5F 3601  D1D5 8FBA 7744 CC87 10D0
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