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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Edinburgh during DebConf7



On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:19:09 +0200, Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> said: 

> On Mon, May 21, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> I want to know the names of people who go to the two hour party,
>> >> so I can discount their sigs.
>> 
>> >    I'm curious. How are you going to link people's names with
>> >    signatures?
>> 
>> Hmm. I would assume that these people attending the big key parties
>> would be on the keyring. I doubt there are very many overlaps and
>> ambiguities of names in the big keyring -- at least, wuickly glancing
>> at the debconf6 keyring, there does not seem to be that much trouble
>> mapping names to keys.
>> 
>> Or are you asking me how does on link keys to sigs? That appear to be
>> trivial.

>    I'm wondering how you are going to know that a given signature was
> made by someone who went to the two-hour party and that the signature
> is a result of these two persons attending the party.

        Then you need to go back and re-read my original request.
 Mailing list archives are quite helpful in such endeavors.  If you
 still have trouble with comprehension, please mail me offline; and I'll
 endeavor to break down my mail into simpler terms.

        manoj
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