Re: PGP signatures.

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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 14:32 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Even if you are using it for security purposes, you should not need
>> to protect the public keys.
>
> Probably not what you meant, but just to be absolutely clear: you *do*
> need to protect public keys against modification (not against reading,
> after all they're public :-)
>
> poc
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Just for completeness and not meant to comment on this conversation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_principle

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