[local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting
Simon Spero
ses at tipper.oit.unc.edu
Wed Jan 24 07:56:41 PST 1996
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > How do they verify that the person confirming the fingerprint is indeed the
> > person supposedly owning the key?
>
> Thats up to the people signing. In most cases in that sort of
> environment, you know about 30% of the people in the room, and you
> sign their keys (and no one elses, which is reasonable).
This is pretty much the pure web-o-trust model - the identity of the
person is assmed to be known at the start of the process, and what is
verified is the key- closure gets you the other folks.
I'm usually not to keen on WOT, but if it was an AI project, this is
the example that would be in the writeup :-)
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