[ncc-services-wg] FW: [ncc-announce] New RIPE NCC PGP Key

Fri Dec 18 14:23:29 CET 2009

Thor Kottelin wrote:

>>From: "Cosku Yilmaz" <cosku at cccmos.com>
>>To: <ncc-services-wg at ripe.net>,
>>	<ncc-announce at ripe.net>
>>Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:39:15 +0300
> 
> 
>>Would you please explain what is need to be done and what the steps
>>are.
> 
> 
> Do you use, or intend to start using, PGP? If not, you do not need to do anything.

Correct.

> If you do use PGP,

or alternatively GnuPG,

> the steps are basically: download the key, check its authenticity,
> sign it using your copy of PGP

And that is not necessary (or even useful) in order "to just verify the email..."

> and add it to a key ring. Then use the new key (instead of the previous one)
>  to verify the email messages you receive from the RIPE NCC.

-W