Changi NNTP Server 1.2

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PGP Verification

News administrators prefer everything to run automatically, especially control messages for adding new newsgroups or removing outdated groups. On the other hand control messages are easy to forge and you can't rely on the From or Sender header.

To solve this conflict, a procedure based on Philip Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) will be used to authenticate the poster of a control message.

To verify control messages, you must have PGP installed. Next you must add a PGP public key to the key ring:

pgp -ka keyfile
keyfile must contain a list of public keys, one of which may be requested via anonymous ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/PGP.PUBLICKEY or by sending email to pgp-public-keys-beta@pgp.ai.mit.edu. Put
GET 0xB88DA9C1
in the subject and leave the body of the message empty.
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URL: changi/manual/pgpveri.html
Created: 24 July 1997
Revised: 24 July 1997
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de