From nick.m.daly@gmail.com Fri Jul 6 02:34:40 2018 From: "Nick M. Daly" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Would you sign a key with a pseudonymous keyholder name? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:34:40 +0000 Message-ID: <172289274087.3881296.17702387703200090273.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0196410528515860337==" --===============0196410528515860337== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:12:37 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > The whole point of key-signing is that you're verifying that you do > > know the providence of the data signed or encrypted by that > > key. Anonymity is the opposite of that. If you want anonymity, then > > you don't want public key encryption. They are not compatible. > > Did you mean to say, "if you want anonymity, then you don't want key > signing"? Probably. Given how researchers could uniquely re-identify a third of nameless Twitter and Flickr users based on the social graph alone [0], you might either want to avoid key signing or avoid any overlapping (reference) social interaction. Also, how'd we get back to "web-of-trust" vs. "web-of-verified-identity" again? Given all the different social understandings of the issues in different contexts, the relevant interpretation seems User * Context based (e.g., 5 users * 6 contexts = 30 interpretations). As Jonas mentioned, social standards can offer direction but the choice and interpretation still seems based, ultimately, on the user and signing statement. /me lights up the dkg signal 0: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============0196410528515860337==--