On 12-07-20 at 04:42pm, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On 12-07-19 at 02:09pm, Fifty Four wrote: > > > So, under what conditions would you give a Level 3 signing to a > > > pseudonymous name on a key? I assume a Level 3 signing means Full > > > validity? > > > > Policies for keysigning is bound to the communities that use them. > > For Debian the purpose of keysigning is to ensure linkage between > > digital identity with a physical and legal identity: a passport is a > > strong identifier there and pseudonyms are pretty much by definition > > going against the very purpose of the aim for keysigning there. > > Well, it's not that easy to assert that passports are strong > identifiers. > > It's a misconception that has been spread by the usual keysigning > party policy, but that isn't that meaningful IMO.
Please note that I explicitly limited to the _Debian_ community treating passports as strong identifier. If you believe that is wrong, I suggest instead of raising the point here that you instead help fix Debian documentation - e.g. file bugs against www.debian.org for places like these (some of which existed even when I became DD 12 years ago): http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step1 http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step2 http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning http://www.debian.org/events/checklist > You can easily buy some forged one on some markets. And you can easily buy a gun on some markets and threaten others to reveal their private key. Debian historically trusts government issued identification. That may change in the future, but Debian is not an anti-government organisation, so maybe not. It is perfectly valid and sane and exciting to apply other principles at other communities, but saying that Passports are not strong identifiers *for* *Debian* is plain wrong. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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