Signing a Key

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Feb 4 21:48:31 CET 2005


On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:57:08PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:39:05PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Some people decided that since a level 1 "I didn't check at all"
> > signature type was available, that it was a Real Good Idea to sign
> > every single key they saw.
> 
> In the 2005-01-23 keyanalyze keydump, there are 2896 0x11 (userid cert.)
> sigs. from 589 issuers (unique long keyids).  296 issuers (50%) only
> issued one 0x11 sig. and 560 (95%) issued less than ten 0x11 sigs.
> 0x10581685C521097E (Kyle's RobotCA instance) is responsible for 592
> such sigs, or 20%, 0x6EA7FB4DE0BB4BCD (telering.at's RobotCA instance)
> issued 217, or 7.5%, and 0x25360A719C851DF1 (ImperialViolet) issued 127.
> Only two individuals issued more 0x11 sigs than my 40.

I'm afraid I don't see the point you're trying to make.

David



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