I can take this file and verify the signature: $ gpg --verify signed_example.txt.asc gpg: Signature made Mon 19 Aug 2024 02:46:04 PM MDT gpg: using RSA key 87A4349F7E1B6B981335FE69EEC8503590D39F90 gpg: Good signature from "m0th@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org <m0th@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org>" [ultimate]
The fingerprint is the last derivative part, it's just a quick way to specify which key you're talking about in a slightly more human readable format. You would still need Crunk's full public key, posted above, and once you have it you could reference it by fingerprint.
You could put "D9E72FDAE14995FAC2BF6F1C1B4F343AE0612080" on your profile if you wanted, but I don't understand what you hope to achieve with that.
If someone took that fingerprint and fetched the associated key the encrypted result would only be readable by Crunk's private key, which isn't shared.
> this fingerprint is on Crunk's profile to basically tell the world that this is real Crunk's profile, correct?
No, this is like an address where to send encrypted things, claiming that a key is Crunks is still a matter of trust, and people the import the key would still need to trust the key.
A signed post could use the keypair reference here, so you could prove that the signed msg came from a specific key, but again, trusting that a key is authentic is homework left up to the user.
@sun Graf donated an old server or something so I'm pretty sure he gets to decide who Rogan bans, I'm just saying, in solidarity with Dutch, thank you for reading my blog post, send toot.
@pwm Not Amazon, but the local gun stores keep telling me their opinions about ammo while complaining about people going to online purchases; my boomer in moloch, you are the death of brick and mortar.
Shares one of the same errors, but arguably worse because piping all your internet traffic to a singular company isn't hiding in the sense people think it is; which they will find out in quick order if they ever do anything more spicy than pirating movies.
Consider Tor, even Brave's built-in should be fine for hiding one's IP on fedi, and it's free.