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[Freedombox-discuss] Would you sign a key with a pseudonymous keyholder name?



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> From: James Gilmore <james.d.gilmore at gmail.com>
>To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org 
>Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 10:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Would you sign a key with a pseudonymous keyholder name?
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>The whole point of key-signing is that you're verifying that you do know the providence of the data signed or encrypted by that key. Anonymity is the opposite of that. If you want anonymity, then you don't want public key encryption. They are not compatible.

Did you mean to say, "if you want anonymity, then you don't want key signing"?

-Jonathan




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