[47836] in Cypherpunks
Re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jan 24 03:30:05 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:32:37 -0800
To: perry@piermont.com
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 16:40 1/23/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Each person gets a sheet. Either each person in the room reads their
>fingerprint in turn from their own copy, with each person in the room
>checking the read fingerprint against the fingerprint on the handout,
>or an appointed reader (or set of readers at the last IETF) read the
>fingerprints in turn and ask the owner of the key to then simply say
>"yes" or "its mine" or whatever to verify that the fingerprint matches
>their own copy of the print.
How do they verify that the person confirming the fingerprint is indeed the
person supposedly owning the key?
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
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