Bill Frantz said:
IMHO - What you are really signing is the binding between the data associated with the key (usually an email address) and the key.
I think that you are signing the data, but not quite the description area. I think you are signing the key. Something like the statement "I believe that anything signed by this key came from the person known as 'X'". This could be an e-mail address, pseudonym a DNA sequence, or whatever... The key (and hopefully the binding between the key and the person in meat space) is what remains constant... not necessarily what the person chooses to go by. Josh -----------------------------Joshua E. Hill----------------------------- | Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law: | | Everything goes wrong all at once. | --------------------------jehill@w6bhz.calpoly.edu----------------------