[81660] in Cypherpunks
Re: Photo ID is not needed for key signings....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jun 12 11:58:37 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706120709.AAA05445@hyperion.boxes.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:31:57 -0700
To: "Joshua E. Hill" <jehill@w6bhz.calpoly.edu>, tcmay@got.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
IMHO - What you are really signing is the binding between the data
associated with the key (usually an email address) and the key. You are
saying that the secret key holder is (one of the) person(s) who has access
to that account, and not some man in the middle in the middle. If you ask
to see Lucky Green's, or Futplex's, or Black Unicorn's picture ID, you will
either see a forgery or an ID issued by an organization not interested in
birth certificates.
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