[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 'bump/hi-five' challenge

[ian at churchkey.org (ian@churchkey.org)]

On 06/25/2011 06:49 AM, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
> Still even without encryption, having just a QR code image, and not the
> key itself stored on the phone might be enough to be able to deny being
> the owner of this identity. OTOH it would at least be a proof that you did
> at some point meet the concerned person. Cause as it was said, you could
> share it on several friends phones, even if this question might not be
> that easy.

That's the wonderful thing about public keys though, if we're publishing
them on the keyserver, anyone could have a copy of either the key or the
key fingerprint without having ever met the person whose key it is.

-Ian