On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:09 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> You can certainly tell a lot about someone by the signatures on their key. >> Either directly from the signature or because those signatures point to >> other keys that have their own signatures, etc. With your permission, may I >> see what I can find from the signatures on your key D6B98E10? > > Go for it. It's public data. Assuming there's nothing intensely personal in > there, I'll pass the results on to the list. > > My point regarding the signatures don't tell you much -- if anything -- is > there is no guarantee that a signer has had any contact with the key holder. > It's foolish to make conclusions about someone's social network based on > their key material. If I have a signature from a person, it is not a > statement that I know that person, that I approve of that person, or that I > would ever associate with that person.
Understood, and I agree it makes no such statement. However, it does make a reasonably good statement that you were physically located near that person at a certain point in time, roughly what that time was, and roughly where (geographically) it happened. Better than that, though, signatures point to other keys. And self-signatures are signatures, too. I'll send you some stuff. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
