Signing people with only one form of ID?

[John W. Moore III]

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Nicholas Cole wrote:

> But that does not mean the web of trust is useless - far from it.
> OpenPGP lets you represent all sorts of trust models: you can choose
> trust the root key of a company, university or computer software
> project, and thereby "trust" all of the people involved in that
> organisation, for example.

ID's, Length of Relationship,Key Fingerprint verification etc. are all
just individual methods of determining Who has control of a Key.  The
WoT is only conferred based upon the 'Depth of Trust' conferred with the
Signature.  PGP refers to this as 'Trusted Introducer' [Black Pencil]
and GnuPG displays this 'depth' with a numerical notation.

Basic 'Exportable' Signatures [0x10, Yellow Pencil] are as common [&
useful] on a Key as a pocket full of business cards after returning from
a convention.  "Yeah, We met & exchanged some Contact Information."

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Sunday 02 Mar 2008, 08:14  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)

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