On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 6 Sep 2011, at 09:29, "Ben Laurie" <[email protected]> wrote: >> a) Who cares? PGP is for email and other online transactions, your >> government (or whatever) issued ID is irrelevant. > > How do you propose we check who is who then Ben? :)
Just because there is a problem it does not mean there is a solution :-) In general, my approach to key-signing is that if you can persuade me the key goes with the email address you want me to sign (the name is immaterial), then I'll sign. This does mean I don't sign all that many keys :-)
