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Re: More requirements for AMs (and their applicants)



On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:31:05AM +0000, James Troup wrote:
<snip>
>  (o) Applicants may NOT (repeat: NOT) have a sign only key[1].
<snip> 
> [1] You can check for this by looking at their key with 'gpg -v
> <applicant's name or key ID>'.  If you see only a "<number>/D"
> (usually 1024) and no "<number>/E" or "<number>/e", it's a sign only
> DSA key.  <cartman>Kick your applicant in the nuts</>[2] and ask him
> to generate a proper key.

I believe that GPG shows this as <number>/g for ElGamal keys, rather than
/E or /e ... certainly does for me anyway.

Timshel

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