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Re: [Cryptography] PGP Key Signing parties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Naggs)
Thu Oct 17 11:41:31 2013
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:52:14 +0100
From: Tony Naggs <tonynaggs@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On 16 October 2013 21:29, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:
> The point I was trying to make when I started the thread was not so much to
> ask whether they took place as to whether they could be improved and made
> more useful if they were recognized as distinct events with a specific set
> of endorsement attributes.
My fault, sorry. Though I think it was illuminating to uncover that key signing
seems more common within certain types of communities. For PGP key
signing I still think ownership of the email address/contact details
being signed
is sufficient criteria, but if a key maybe used to say sign legal contracts then
ID requirements are higher. Maybe these levels of knowledge can be captured
at signing.
> In particular, I was thinking of key ceremony as being potentially a means
> of spreading the use of strong crypto beyond ultra-techy communities. To
> doctors, lawyers etc.
Spreading the use of strong crypto is good. :-)
> Such groups would probably require (and pay for) the services of a compere
> to run the process. If it was appropriately designed it can become part of
> the social mingling.
My experience of PGP in a corporate setting is that keys are signed by
the company's keyserver & that additional keys to encrypt to are added.
I would be more inclined to share my (PGP) key and sign others if it was
simple to do, such as touching 2 NFC enabled mobile phones together.
Tony
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