<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Different accounts have different keys, because people may not want it<br></blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
to be obvious that accounts X and Y actually belong to the same person.</blockquote><div><br>like i said, i knew you'd have an explanation for this. it would be nice to be able to turn this feature off though.<br><br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You can just put a couple of extra lines on your web page, like this:<br><a href="http://r6.ca/russellotr.asc">
http://r6.ca/russellotr.asc</a></blockquote><div><br>that presumes one has a web page and that it is trustworthy. suppose the cia hacked it? not a great place to place trust imo. my solution of just manually altering the keys file seems to work well, because it doesn't force multiple voice verifications (phone calls).
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> but one thing i just had happen, which was really weird, is that i was using
<br>> an account that already has a key, and a new key was generated, obviously<br>> foreign to my friend. i closed gaim and removed the new key from the key<br>> file, and restarted..and everything worked fine. so why did it just add a
<br>> new key in the first place?! bizarre.<br><br>The most probable thing that jumps to mind is that when you edited the<br>private keys file by hand, you ended up with an invalid key somewhere (a<br>mismatched paren, possibly). When the new key was created, the keys
<br>file would have been rewritten correctly.</blockquote><div><br>nope. what happened was the resource changed, like a explained in a later email.<br></div></div><br>thanks,<br>clay<br>