On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:27:58AM +0300, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Hello, > > As you may or may not know, a key signing "party" was held today > at the cinemateque. This party involved the identity verification of > participants so their keys could be later signed by fellow participants. > Although not deprived of a procedural mishap[0], the party was completed with > 9 verified identities. Soon after the gathering had terminated, people began > to sign each other's keys. As of now, there are 8 keys in this newly formed > keyring. I have posted the keyring and other visual aids produced by > sig2dot.pl and graphviz at http://yotamr.dyndns.org/keyring .
Please update it from the key-server, I have signed all of you fellers as well. > I hope that this keyring will continue to expand. The value of a > public keyring, where one may reliably confirm another's identity is not > only useful for the present, but possibly for the future as well, when the > government would want to explore digital id's and the like. Should there be > a large enough keyring, it's possible that government officials might lean > towards an open solution, rather than a proprietary one. > > If anyone wants to hold a key signing party in Beer-Sheva and the vicinity, > please let me know. > > Regards, Yotam Rubin > > [0]: Everyone except for Nadav Har'El neglected to bring their key > fingerprints, which tends to decrease the reliability of the whole > process. Small correction here: Eran Tromer brought his fingerprint as well, and I did not bring it, since I verified it before hand against the printed copied I passed out. Those of you who did not participate, fret not - we'll have another key signing party in the next IGLU event. -- http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
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