On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:40:12AM -0500, Andrew D. Fant wrote:
> Jon Portnoy wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:31:25AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Any dev that you cannot physically verify via government or school
> >>issued identification and their physical presence, should not be signed.
> >>Otherwise you are simply weakening the web of trust. In fact, for LWE
> >>key signing, we require 2 forms of picture identification.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Most people don't _have_ two forms of picture ID.
>
> If you limit it to school and government, it can be hard unless you have
> a passport, but don't you have two of {drivers license, passport, school
> ID, work ID, credit card with photo}?
>
No. I have a driver's license, that's it. No school ID, work ID, credit
cards, passport, or even a library card 8)
I suspect I can't be the only one. When you consider that and the fact
that we have devs in pretty isolated areas, I suspect building a web of
trust will be quite a challenge.
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Jon Portnoy
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