Reflections on Trusting Trust

[Christian Brueffer]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:43:43PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Kurt Seifried <listuser at seifried.org> wrote:
> 
> >should have people upload their keys. On another note I am available 
> >to sign PGP keys (proving your key/identity is an excercise left to 
> >the reader =),
> 
> or to the signer... the keys are available in the handbook (either from
> www.freebsd.org or in raw from http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/doc) and sending
> them to the @FreeBSD.org address should put them in to the hands of their
> owners (and if not, it doesn't matter, they just don't get your signature on
> their key). And AFAIK this is all PGP is supposed to verify, that the person
> behind "user at example.tld" is the same as the person with access to the
> secret key for this address. Please correct me if I'm wrong and PGP also is
> supposed to e.g. verify that the name is the same as on the passport or
> whatever way of personal identification is available where the owner of the
> key to sign lives).
> 

Well, at least to me it's also about "does the name on the key and the
private key owner match?"

I wouldn't sign a foreign key without having checked an official
document containing a photo first (passport, drivers license etc).

- Christian

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