-- > > Once you start using it, it becomes part of hte pattern > > by wich other people identify you.
On 2 Oct 2002 at 9:52, David Howe wrote: > Exactly the intention, yes :) Just for the sake of it (anyone > who cares will have seen my signature enough times by now) I > will sign this one :) And PGP tells me "signature not checked, key does not meet validity threshold" So I said to myself, OK, I will sign David Howe's key on my keyring to tell myself that this is the "David Howe" who posts on cypherpunks, though of course, pgp gives us merely a single variable "trust", which can have no easy connection to the question "what do you actually know about this particular David Howe?". (What we really would like is a database of communications indexed by key, so that we could see this communication in the context of past communications with the David Howe that used the same key.) I attempt to sign "David Howe"s key, whereupon PGP gives the highly uninformative error message: "Key signature error". It seems that I get similarly uninformative errors whenever I tried to use PGP. And that folks, is at least one of the reasons why end user crypto is not widespread. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3XIIjDu4swm4B8omsJgkQJcu1Op4/sNb2XkGf18B 4F9ZT3OQag+pZrW134bJdhLT3EeX1wOFqJzi1WJQ5