-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> What I saw was more than "8 characters", did you mean something else? > > g: >> as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i entered 8 characters. > > Well, the sample you supplied was certainly more than 8 characters long. > Prompted for entry into what? in originally set up for pgp signature, i used 8 characters. this is where i miss led you. these 8 produce a 40 character fingerprint. in pgpsignature, 94 characters are produced with first 26 common. >> mime is a waste. > > No, not at all. With MIME you get information on content encoding > and/or content type, this i understand. where i believe it to be a waste is when a plain text file is attached and it is converted to mime. also, a waste is to send a text message in 'base64'. my apologies for not being more clear. sometimes i tend to be 'terse' when i should elaborate. and yes, my first use of unix was on teletype printer. also, my typing is slower than my thinking, and i tend to leave out when catching up. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJCdzj+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAgF5AKDGCxLhMCKzSkNiX4fmHEsaE1o2IgCfcSGn 1gz80F/jFGA0lg/iGZWAHeg= =/Wxy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines