On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Sami Liedes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:43:53AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Perhaps it would be good enough to have the public > > checksum-checking part of the keysigning party very early on in > > Debconf, and then do the signing later on during meals, where > > there would be an opportunity for more informal interaction to > > establish identity, etc. beyond the 20 seconds or so that you have > > during a mass keysigning. > > That's a compromise of some kind. I don't think it's necessary the > best possible compromise, though. There seem to be two conflicting > needs here, which both seem to me to have some importance: > > a) That the ID check needs to be more than casual, and the nature of > a mass key signing party often results in lax checks; > > b) That a strong WOT is a strongly connected WOT, with lots of > (proper) signatures.
You can't have b without a. And it's very difficult to do (a) in a large setting. Plus, we might as well bring in the social interactions that doing (a) properly entails, and a place to do that which is less time restricted is probably better. That said, we can always do a massive key signing if it doesn't work out. Don Armstrong -- Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
