Keysigning

[Lucas Gonze]

There are a number of services that do geolocation based on IP address.
These are all commercial, as far as I know.

- Lucas

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Chris Hedemark wrote:

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> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 10:25 AM, greg@turnstep.com wrote:
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> > I am open to ideas about how to do this.
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> This is not a small task.  And it only works for the USA users.
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> Geolocate users based on their ZIP code, and use the US Census "TIGER"
> database to group them with the nearest city.
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> I don't know how to apply this on an international scale unless people
> are willing/able to provide meaningful GPS coordinates.
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> Having this capability buys you something else, though;  a user can say
> what ZIP code they're in and how far they are willing to drive for a
> keysigning.  This will lead to a lot of overlapping bubbles that people
> are willing to meet within.  At a "dumb" level you can merely send
> someone a list of who they can reasonably expect to meet based on
> mutually convenient travel range.  At a more intelligent level, key
> analysis could be performed to sort out who is close that has already
> signed your key vs. who has yet to sign it.
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