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> > 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
