[47806] in Cypherpunks
Re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jan 23 21:16:57 1996
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:26:35 PST."
<2.2.32.19960124002635.008c27e8@mail.teleport.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:03:28 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Alan Olsen writes:
> {key signing stuff deleted for space]
>
> That was the basic format we used. The only difference was that the keys
> were collected before hand and distributed on disk.
That makes it hard to have people check things off in real time. You
need to have people read their fingerprints or orally acknowledge
them, which you can't do if they aren't readable to the crowd.
Perry
