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Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Mar 25 11:49:44 2003

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To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
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From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:24:55 EST.
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:55:46 -0600

> > I must be out of touch - since when did
> > PGP key signing require a photo id?
> 
> It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys of
> people you mostly do not know personally.

Assuming, of course, that the ID is of a sort for which you have an
"is-a-forgery" oracle.

Has anyone ever weighted a PGP key's certification value as a
function of how many keys it's know to have certified?

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