[spam][joke][cryptotragedy] checking signatures on boot media

[Stefan Claas]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 5:45 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 16:31:06 +0100
> Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > And you can't trust signed pub keys from key signing  parties, because people can show
> > fake passports.
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>         right, so you can only 'trust' people you actually know. So what is public key crypto supposed to accomplish, exactly.

I would say it tries to accomplish the sharing of cryptographic keys openly,
compared to symmetric (secret) key distribution.

Regards
Stefan