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Re: gpg/pgp noise



09.05.2012 11:56, Jon Dowland kirjoitti:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> Bob's PGP signature is valid - yours is not
>> You waste our time and bandwidth.
> 
> In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine.  The signatures
> are valid.
> 
>> Bob's key validates his identity - yours does not.
>> I can verify that "Bob" is "Bob" through a chain of trust.
> 
> Why does Mikka's not? It's not impossible for someone to have a trust
> path to Mikka. Albeit one step removed, since the signing key he uses
> has one signature, from another of his keys - but that one has at
> least one. (I haven't managed to construct a trust path to Mikka
> myself, since most of the public pathfinder servers don't have his
> key)
> 
> 

Because nobody else near Kotka, Finland uses PGP and the nearest CAcert
assurers are after 110KMs from me.

PS. I am back to weird long signatures. I won't comment to this thread
anymore nor to anything else which I haven't written in my signature or
elsewhere.

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