At 06:01 PM 4/25/03 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 02:20 PM 4/25/03 -0400, someone claiming to be Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
(-: The sig is valid for the key at http://fexl.com/keys/patrick.txt)
I didn't doubt that it was. However, my caveat remains true, and you haven't proved anything additional. An entity claiming that name, and claiming to be not-a-bot, and apparently controlling the DNS entry at the server I checked today for fexl.com today, has signed a message. Yep, I believe [1] that. I'm not picking on you. Neither am I trying to be a dick; skeptical socratics sometimes appear so. Check the archives for extended discussion as to what, exactly, signing proves. On the other hand, *whatever* entity has been signing these messages collects the reputations associated with them *more reliably*[1] than merely posting under your name. Maybe you're a 14 year old girl pretending to be an FBI agent pretending to be a cryptographer :-) Making the leap from key-holder to meatspace entity is unsound unless something in meatspace demonstrates it. You're all bits from here. ----- [1] Note that these beliefs are moderated by unfounded trust in PGP implem & algs, that you've protected your private key, etc. But we'll grant that for now. ----- "With a laser printer, you can get away with anything" --a Quark-using confederate in the late 80s, referring to the widespread trust of finely printed documents at the time