[47853] in Cypherpunks
Re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Jan 24 10:11:44 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:07:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601241431.JAA13316@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > How do they verify that the person confirming the fingerprint is indeed the
> > person supposedly owning the key?
>
> Thats up to the people signing. In most cases in that sort of
> environment, you know about 30% of the people in the room, and you
> sign their keys (and no one elses, which is reasonable).
This is pretty much the pure web-o-trust model - the identity of the
person is assmed to be known at the start of the process, and what is
verified is the key- closure gets you the other folks.
I'm usually not to keen on WOT, but if it was an AI project, this is
the example that would be in the writeup :-)
