-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- An entity callnig itself Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> is alleged to have written:
bryce@digicash.com wrote:
Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> wrote: (> "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:)
IIRC, currently Black Unicorn doesn't have any signatures on his public key of others. Therefore, this requirement, while understandable, could cause a bit of a difficulty in the current situation.
Please obtain a copy of my current key by finger.
Oh please. My respect for Uni's acumen just decremented a couple of notches. A 2048-bit key, and no signatures? Rather like a front door with welded plate armor and an open window, no?
Let's talk more off-list...
Hang on! This is interesting - keep in on-list!
If we did, we'd have to kill you. 8-)
What's the big deal about not having signed his own key?
The only thing that signing your own key does is show the [claimed] id of the real keyholder. There's no scope for abuse. Claiming this to be an armour door and open window is overreacting a bit.
Okay this is on-list because I have propagated disinformation and I'm trying to propagate the correction: for some reason I, and apparently E. ALLEN SMITH, got a copy of Black Uni's key which was devoid of signatures of any kind. My complaint was that this made it utterly open to MITM attacks. I was mistaken about Uni's key's lack of signatures though, and I apologized for saying the above. Actually, Black Uni's key via finger has two signatures (not counting his own): Sandy Sandfort (whose key has no signatures, as far as my copy of it goes), and loki@obscura.com (whose key has 22 signatures, only 3 of which are from keys that I can find copies of not counting loki's own). more later, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMYSZZEjbHy8sKZitAQHB5wMA03m0NqNCMX0OjVdsQ+Kh7J6ZTPL3SJ/+ CqtrcrMly14cgBlDj4lWzXDZCHv179h8hyt0Y/zIG4fcnY+anUjFAN9vvUapqIxc PkeH27XuCN1JfeJCH/eTiy0Hzf6+nN5J =GbtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----