On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:11:54PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > 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.
Firstly, my apologies for opening this can of worms. Having said that, I like Don's idea a lot. Perhaps it would be worth setting up a system to generate the list of DebConf attendees furthest from one's own key in the WoT, to give people targets to hunt down, while tightening the WoT most efficiently. Cheers, _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
