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Summary: You can use my PGP/GPG public key to encrypt something you send me, or verify something I've signed.

I want to verify something that you've signed, what's your public key?

You can actually get my public key (for leo<at>pugetsoundsoftware.com) from several key PGP/GPG servers out there, but for the record, here 'tis:


-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32)
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=0j0h
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Using this you can encrypt something such that only I can decrypt it, and you can validate that something that's claimed to be signed by me a) is, and b) hasn't been tampered with.

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