Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:23:04 -0400 |
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On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:39:32 +0300, Adrian Bunk said:
> But the semantics of PGP key signing is that you certify that you > verified that a photo ID of that person matches the name on the key.
No. The semantics are that you've verified the person matches the key. Photo ID's are *one way* of doing it.
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
The GNU Privacy Handbook says (under 'Importing a Public Key'):
"A key's fingerprint is verified with the key's owner. This may be done in person or over the phone or through any other means as long as you can guarantee that you are communicating with the key's true owner. If the fingerprint you get is the same as the fingerprint the key's owner gets, then you can be sure that you have a correct copy of the key."
Now, if you're doing a PGP keysigning, then yes, checking government-issued ID is probably the only sane way to verify 50 or 100 people's identities in an hour. But if you have other trustable channels of doing so, that's considerd OK too.
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