Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:17:50 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels
<ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
>In germany the post offices offer a service where you hand the clerk your id
>and he will check it, enter the details into a letter which he sends to the
>receipient. This is called "postident".
>
>That way you can do age checks and idendity proofs. However you have to
>trust a random person to do the job right. PGP has (undefined) assurance
>levels to express this.
And judging by the "service" the german post office usually provides,
I won't trust postident zilch.
Greetings
Marc
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