This is widely off topic, I know... Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Private keys can be compromised by anyone with a whim and a few >> thousand dollars, either physically by compromise of the device, or >> remotely by social engineering or zero-day exploit. Key signing >> parties are premised on the idea that private keys are really private. >> Since they aren't, the additional security of a real-life meeting is >> somewhat farcical. >> > > Moreover, what's to stop someone from showing up and claiming to be > you? How are you going to confirm that -- by their telling you > they're coming and what they look like, over the Internet? Why don't > they just sign your keys over the Internet and skip the middle-man? > > Not to be negative or anything, sorry. (I'm not even going to be there.) > >
Personally (even though I don't have tattoos) I think I could give details of myself that would be somewhat difficult to forge on short notice. The index finger of my right hand sports a completely healed up lack of nail. That is to say my index finger has a shrunken leathery surface where usually there would be a nail. my left wrist on the backside also has three round scars, where I have burnt them with various cigarettes and cigars, in a roughly belt of Orion pattern, and my chin has a prominent scar on the underside from when I jumped into the pool as a child, backwards, taking a seriously too short a step :-D ( I cringe every time I hear the famous quote by John Glenn :-) This story benefits from me mentioning that after the cranial shock of nearly dislocating my head from my neck, I subsequently promptly ran head first into a window that was open, and just managed to ignore the presence of, giving me a much more short lived scar on my forehead as well. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
