Re: PGP signing releases

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:55, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:35:47PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not saying md5 is as secure as pgp, not at all, but you can't
> > > trust those pgp keys to be the real one either.
> >
> > Sure you can. Just verify that they've been signed by someone you trust.
>
> I know how it works, it's just very unlikely I'll ever meet
> someone so it gives me a good chain.
>
> Anyway, I think pgp is good thing to do, just don't assume that
> it's always better then just md5.

Not necessarily better -- but it's always as good as md5.

--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc