User:User A1/ident ver

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This page can be used to (manually) verify the identity of User:User_A1 in the case of account hijacking. Messages encrypted by this public key can be decrypted only by people who have access to User_A1's private key. If there is any suspicion of account hijacking, please encrypt a (random) message on User_A1's talk page and request decryption.

• This key will be retired on 08/12/08 05:00 GMT

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIICIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAg8AMIICCgKCAgEAtkZZJ5fGyyGq35PcUIOv
/YiN6/7RCAVTKnvBCO1vHmusNuDd32ZyGlAnCviH+1MKhxVUa+vpprkIKObxpvln
wDvj3zMC4Hxr3g9HnZtXAfzJRiUf9k0OQwCCdOQ1R0Aw6aguOybBDILQyBiufqG9
U4T+YpzZ6qvK8+hLZfgKW+9O5AKbY1Pp5Z7fQo3qI3ZL+MgLXDTVPSaaerl3Ih5y
Ei/ffvt368R1m9rsXT6ix/3EhtN4To2kExEat065GzvO41svFvTKqV+GrxUpNgeF
YCQ5JOICUxK53SScUtQUkFT+J95M5vjfArVgx6vvdL2LiDOktbet31oyM1LUQdFM
73kq1wz6sHvO6n0JP24sMBkEKbpfLVKaVdNedGuEO9GYkm8Q+mHDPB9yDcIAUOQ3
omx+WuO59WCfUttHUR17+IYJ+eeK60LkFL+MlbmTLm37R4naks1quGnv7ADIdVuT
RFg5cEaYWU5G4c+Tb5HLhHgLt2MrIxqvigvW4lGa/Oy8t11amLIE3FnfOVOPRIBi
+JdnrMzMRPv2Sz4iEg+82HhOdqe61yvJpDiwlmeRXYsvcBqIe4t1E/5Ostj2ztis
Qhk8XP4cNr1KNZc8bu0Ad3hlWDOmhusrSJyKjdj8Zf5n16x1ZI4vk4EVytxKSxmS
LbJJ903uI403nrxPct7jsMcCAwEAAQ==
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

• Note that this only verifies this user to YOU, and does not allow third parties to verify this user on your behalf. This is because you don't know if the third party (let's call them B) has shared this data with some-one else (C). So if B encrypts a message and asks someone to decrypt it, the decryption proof could be falsified by C if B has told C the answer in advance. Thus C could pretend to be User_A1 merely by showing the unencrypted message that B has covertly passed to C. This of course requires prior collusion between B & C.