[12685] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP Question:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Apr 28 18:34:05 1994
To: "Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi" <vkisosza@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 28 Apr 94 16:17:15 -0600.
<9404282217.AA58112@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 18:31:01 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Sorry Derek, you lost me on this one. Why should there be
> signature revocations? When you sign a key, all you are vouching
There are a number or real reasons. Maybe you got coerced into
signing they key, or you think that maybe the key was signed
incorrectly, or maybe that person no longer uses that email address,
because they lost the account, or that maybe you don't believe that
the binding of key to userID is valid for any number of reasons.
That is why signature revocations should exist. Comments?
-derek
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
warlord@MIT.EDU PP-ASEL N1NWH PGP key available
