On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:39:16PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > >To considerably reduce the time spent checking ID documents, each >participant will be placed in one of a number of groups after all >the keys have been received. The groups will be organized after >computer simulations are run to (heuristically) optimize the mean >shortest distance (MSD) of all participants. liw suggested a matrix idea after the ksp in Helsinki. Here is a transcript of a conversation today about liw's idea and some other things about the ksp. <liw> every year debconf keysigning reminds me that I should actually test in practice my matrix idea <liw> though I'm happy to see there's a new method attempted this year at debconf <liw> http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2005-Random-thought.html#20050725d <aj> anibal: recommending sha1 and sha256 would probably be better than md5/sha1 <liw> someone should take on a project to do new mugshots this year <anibal> aj, thanks, I'll change to sha1 and sha256 then <dato> liw: aigars said something on his blog about wanting to do it <liw> dato, good, then it's being handled <anibal> liw, your matrix idea is equivalent to put N people in sqrt(N) groups <anibal> dato, URL please :) <liw> anibal, that's part of it, yes <aj> liw: you have a typo: row where it should be column, i think <aj> liw: it's 2 groups per participant, with 2*sqrt(N) groups of sqrt(N) people, right? <liw> part of my vision of doing keysignings is to avoid any complicated procedures people need to do beforehand; downloading files and verifying checksums counts as tricky; the rows-and-columns idea is to reduce the number of identity checks one person needs to do (preferably to way under 10) <dato> anibal: ah, right. http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/05/31/debconf-fun-and-motivation-and-pictures/ <Rhonda> anibal: Maybe you could link to http://alfie.ist.org/projects/gpg-party/gpg-party instead of http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html in the wiki? <Rhonda> anibal: Both for that it does use content negotiation, and that it doesn't have the "WORKING DRAFT" boiler plate on it. :) Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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