Hi, On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 07:11:56PM +0100, Maarten van Geijn wrote: > Of course it could be anything, but I am starting to feel hoodwinked. Does > this happen more often? Any recommendation from you? In big signing parties its pretty usual that a sizeable chunk never signs your key, I suppose less so in small meetings, but the important thing to remember here is that nobody has any obligation to sign a key and there certainly is no handle to "force" someone to sign you back even if they said they would. Its not how signing a key works: You sign that you are reasonably sure that this person is who they claim to be and are linked to certain keys. It doesn't say anything about what they believe about you and your keys. And if they sign you or not should have no bearing on your signature. I can certainly understand that you are frustrated and feel cheated, especially if you need (more) signatures to e.g. apply for DD status and somehow the world seems to have conspired into making it especially hard for you … but the world hasn't. There is probably a very easy and reasonable explanation – my cat ate it –, but perhaps you will never get to know them – my cat is very sorry but I am way too embarrassed to tell anyone – and while it is frustrating to not know, it isn't very healthy to dwell on it either. If I were you, I would just let it rest and look for other signing opportunities. Perhaps even key endorsements are an option. As the saying goes: a watched pot never boils. I have received signatures months later… and I wasn't always the fasted signer either [surprisingly, trying to keep your certification key off- line and air-gapped somehow makes it a bit of a time-consuming ordeal to actual use it, so I might end up putting it off and off and …]. ~~~~ TRIGGER WARNING ~~~~ Imagine for a moment we weren't talking about key signing, but you two had meet for a date. Terms like ghosting and stalking come to mind and so this thread reads like a very dark and scary place to be in. Lets get the hell out of here… ~~~~ Best regards David Kalnischkies, who – full disclosure – isn't even a domestic servant for a cat currently nor did he sign a key in a long while
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