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Re: key signing transitivity



On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Daniel Dent wrote:
> > > people who wish to prove their identity.  Though the page
> > Not for Debian.
> Well, I've been in some queue or other for so long that
> perhaps things have changed, but I know in the past that an
> email certificate issued by one of the commercial 'trust
> authorities' was one way to help provide a trust path.

Oh, it helps. If one is going to use anything else than a direct gpg
signature, it certainly helps.

> > And anyone signing a gpg key of someone else based on a certificate or
> > certification of someone else is better off not touching crypto software
> > ever again.
> I wasn't suggesting that.  I was merely mentioning that

I know.  I just pointed it out for anyone reading the archives/thread.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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