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Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Tue Mar 25 11:39:07 2003
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:32:08 -0800 (PST)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>,
"Douglas F. Calvert" <dfc@anize.org>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <3423551E-5E58-11D7-B5A0-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org>
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
>It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys of
>people you mostly do not know personally.
>
Right, but remember that knowing people personally was supposed
to be part of the point of vouching for their identity to others.
"I know this guy. We spent a couple years working on X together."
is different in kind from "I met this guy once in my life, and he
had a driver license that said his name was mike."
Bear
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