Re: I'm not quitting that easy. (Was: Re: I would like to vote also.)
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:06:53AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>
> Thomas> karlheg@bittersweet.member.dsl-only.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> >> But that key can tie me to that photo I uploaded. Unless I'm proxy
> >> for several people and let one of them sign my ID and upload it for
> >> me, my having the private half of that key ties me in some way (How
> >> securely?) to that signed scan. Someday when/if we meet, you can
> >> verify that I'm probably the man in the photo, and that I indeed have
> >> the private half of that key. (barring catastrophy)
>
> Thomas> Um, no it doesn't.
>
> Thomas> Whoever signed the photo has the private half of that key. But how do
> Thomas> we know that Karl signed the photo?
>
> Because someday when we are in the same place at the same time I
> prove it by producing that key's fingerprint.
>
The day you and a DD are in the same place and he can check your
id and get your gpg fingerprint and then sign your key, your scanned
id on your account is not needed any more.
Your key cannot go into the keyring just because your id maybe can
be checked some time in the future.
(Can't we create a debian-hegbloom mailing list for people that
want to discuss keysigning with Karl?)
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Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>
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