PGP: looking for advice on settings

[Andrew Webber]

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:42:55 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>> Is it much of a security risk to put it on a public 
>> server?
>
>    No.  That is the whole point of the public key.  Spread 
>it far and wide so anyone can verify your signature and/or 
>encrypt to you.  It is your private key you must keep 
>hidden.

That makes sense.  



I've received one person's public key by email, it was easy to
save.  But when someone posts a URL for getting their key, how do
you get it into PMMail?  Or does it only handle emailed keys
automatically?

I was wondering about the file naming, too.  Would it make sense to
use something other than the default (and obvious) pubring.pkr,
secring.skr, and randseed.rnd?  Or would some application(s) expect
those names?

Thanks!

andrew
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