The disadvantages of online KSP

[Henk de Bruijn]

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:33:42 -0500GMT (25-12-2004, 21:33 +0100, where
I live), David Shaw wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:44:45PM +0100, Ben Branders wrote:

...<snip>

>> But then again, you can never know for sure that someone is an
>> imposter or not. There are a lot of people who share exactly the
>> same name. Even if you check their identity in real life, one of
>> them can mislead you...

> Signing someone's key is you making a statement that you have checked
> that the key belongs to the person named in the user ID.  You really
> can't do that in a strong way without meeting physically.

> I would not sign someone's key under such circumstances.

Neither would I.

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