On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:19:49 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Francesco Poli [...] > | If you modify a GPG public key, you obtain something that no longer > | corresponds to the original private key (obviously). > > No, the most common modification done to a GPG public key is adding a > signature to it in which case it still corresponds to the original > private key. Fair enough. Even though adding a signature is more adding something to a work than modifying the existing work... Anyway, adding a signature does not require access to anything but the public key itself in the form in which it's normally distributed by keyservers. As a consequence, I would say the remainder of my previous reasoning still holds... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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