On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:14:12PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > > You want someone to correspond with you regarding some serious things > > without you letting him know your real name? > > 1. The developer in question _does_ know my real name. > > 2. If you are talking about someone who hasnt met me in real > life, even assuming that I use my "Bob Smith" id, how in heavens name will > they know that it is my real name? They have to trust the fact that there > was a trusted someone who verified that a "real" me owns the id in > question. This would be true even for the Jor-el id. > > 3. As I pointed out in my email, if the developer in question > wasnt sure that the email id of Jor-el belonged to me, then he wouldnt be > able to sign the following id too : "Bob Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is > so ridiculous, becuase it is perfectly valid for a person named Bob Smith > to own an id called [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Am I missing something?
Someone else with experience in PGP keys handling will answer this question, I can't. I have a PGP key, but nobody has yet signed it. FWIW I don't feel that having this and that encyrpted/signed/authenticated is important. I also think that people should put their full name in the From: field of e-mail messages they send, and changelog entries of the packages they upload. But that's just my opinion. > > BTW, isn't "Jor-el" a Star Wars character? > > PS. Not Star Wars but Superman. Jor-el was the father of Kal-el (aka > Superman). Oh... I must have missed that episode ;) -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
