Key Signing

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Bill Stewart wrote:
> 
> In particular, if you publish the key with your first posting,
> then you can demonstrate later that you're the poster who
> used that name.  Thus, Checkered Daemon announced his nym with
> a key, and since I could find no other record of use of that name,
> I was willing to sign that key 0x50EC521D as his (I do use
> a separate key for signing nyms; I've signed them for a few other
> people such as Black Unicorn, some of whom I've since met in person.)
> You can also get similar results by posting your key fingerprint
> in your messages and sending the key to a keyserver, and it's
> a bit more compact, but for a first posting using a nym
> it's worthwhile to include the key.

Excellent advice, Bill!
I am including the key (below) for my new nym, which has not been used
before, and would like for people to sign it and send the signed key
to the list.
This way, people will know by the signature, that it is, indeed:

Necessarily Knot, ME

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At 01:21 AM 11/10/1997 +0100, Necessarily Knot, ME wrote:
>I am including the key (below) for my new nym, which has not been used
>before, and would like for people to sign it and send the signed key
>to the list.
>This way, people will know by the signature, that it is, indeed:
>Necessarily Knot, ME

This was bizarre - what did you do to create the key and the ASCII version?
I imported the key into my PGP 5.0, and saw the double-key icon,
which says I have the private key as well as the public key,
and sure enough, it was willing to let me change the passphrase
(which was previously not set.)  

I'm not sure how comfortable I am signing a key which has the
private keys made public - so I signed it, and revoked it,
and you're welcome to the signed revocation certificate :-)

The keyserver says it accepted the certificate, but doesn't
find it when I query it for the key, but then it did that to me
earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's there or not.
(It's the server at http://www.pgp.com/keyserver/pks-lookup.cgi .)

The KeyID was 0x61C747B1 - 512-bit RSA 

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But hey, since I've got this bogus key around, might as well sign
something with it :-)
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				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639