Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-26 Thread Stefan Kelm
Has anyone ever weighted a PGP key's certification value as a function of how many keys it's know to have certified? The PGP keyserver folks perform a regular public keyring analysis: http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/2003-03-23/ http://dtype.org/keyanalyze/ Cheers, Stefan.

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-26 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:36:20AM -0500, Ian Grigg wrote: | So, do we have two completely disjoint communities | here? One group that avoids photo id and another | that requires it? Or is one group or the other so | small that nobody really noticed? Yes. One group thinks that a bad trust

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-26 Thread Len Sassaman
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ian Grigg wrote: I must be out of touch - since when did PGP key signing require a photo id? It does not. It is improper for a key-signing organizer to dictate signing policy to individuals. When I wrote the Efficient Group Key Signing Method paper[1], I specifically

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread bear
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys of people you mostly do not know personally. Right, but remember that knowing people personally was supposed to be part of the point of vouching for their identity to others. I

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Jeroen van Gelderen
On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 22:32 US/Eastern, bear wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys of people you mostly do not know personally. Right, but remember that knowing people personally was supposed to be part of

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Grigg
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 00:22, Jeroen van Gelderen wrote: On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 22:32 US/Eastern, bear wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys of people you mostly do not know personally. Right,

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Jeroen van Gelderen
On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 00:36 US/Eastern, Ian Grigg wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 00:22, Jeroen van Gelderen wrote: On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 22:32 US/Eastern, bear wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: It's rather efficient if you want to sign a large number of keys

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] On Saturday 22 March 2003 17:12, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: I will be organizing a keysigning session for CFP2003. Please submit

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Matt Crawford
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

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread bear
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Matt Crawford wrote: Has anyone ever weighted a PGP key's certification value as a function of how many keys it's know to have certified? An interesting idea: At one extreme you could view the whole universe as having a finite amount of trust and every certification is a

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas F. Calvert
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:52, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: I must be out of touch - since when did PGP key signing require a photo id? It is an usual requirement for a keysigning party to bring a photo ID to validate if theirs key ids are the same as their names (and to get class 3 key

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-24 Thread Ian Grigg
On Saturday 22 March 2003 17:12, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: I will be organizing a keysigning session for CFP2003. Please submit your keys to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will print out

Re: Keysigning @ CFP2003

2003-03-24 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 11:00 US/Eastern, Ian Grigg wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 17:12, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: I will be organizing a keysigning session for CFP2003. Please submit your keys to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will print out sheets with key information in order to speed up the