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[Discuss] Relevance of PGP?



On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:48:52PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> 
> This makes some sense to me: lawyers, guns and money people should be
> using encryption. How do you get the key from them? I doubt they
> attend the BLU meeting :-)

They hand you a business card that has their name, email
address, a key ID on a public keyserver, and the fingerprint.

Now they just need to make sure you're you, which is harder if
you aren't similarly equipped.

-dsr-


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