On Saturday 02 August 2003 0:29, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Dan Armak wrote: > > 2. For some reason, noone seems to use the option of adding a photo to > > their gpg key. (Except for me that is :-) Why is that? Photos, printed > > out along > > Have you thought of how do blind people sign keys? > > No, neither have I. > > But they do: they tell you a word in private, and ask you to email and > sign it with your key. > > Thus, they can verify that the person they spoke to is really the person > holding the said email and the said key, though they cannot verify you are > called how it says in your ID.
That's the natural solution. It's ours (printed IDs) that doesn't look right. And, keysigning parties as such don't work at all in some circumstances. People sometimes want to maintain identities, and keys, for names different from the one in their government files; you can't verify those using papers. Or 'trustable anonymous identities' as in Freenet. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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