Why CAs or public keysigning?

[william maddler]

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On Wednesday 18 June 2003 13:15, Peter L. Smilde wrote:
> Can anybody give me a good argument for CAs and public keysigning parties?

well... CAs are _supposed_ to be trusted and to do various actions to ensur=
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the identity of the key owner they are signing...

public keysigning parties are useful to improve the web of trust, more=20
signatures on someone's key make more probable that you know some of the=20
signers... that's true... if you know no one of them you cannot implicitly=
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ensure the key is "true"... when I sign some1 else key I have to be sure of=
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the identity... because I know him... or only if the name on the ID I'm=20
signing is the same on his identity card...=20

hope it helped...

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