From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T22:17:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to post code relevant to a newsgroup question

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:

> Perfect answer!  But I don't know anything about Public Key
> Cryptography beyond the basic idea...

Whoa. How did we make the leap from Pastie to Public Key Crypto?

To use Pastie (and other similar code-paste sites) you just go to
pastie.org, and type or paste in your source code snippet. You can
specify the programming language for that snippet using the little
drop-down list box in the upper right-hand corner of the window (it
defaults to "Ruby (on Rails)". When you're done, click the "Paste"
button in the lower right-hand corner. The page will reload, and at
that point it's in the system and you can share it with others---just
copy the new URL that's shown in the browser's URL field, which will
look something like this:

    http://www.pastie.org/224739

Hope this helps,

Lyle

P.S. ICQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ) is an instant-messaging
system, and Sebastian was just listing his ICQ user number in his
e-mail signature. One's ICQ number is a kind of unique identifier
(within that system) but it's not the same thing as a public key used
in crypto applications.