Hi Mike, gnupg users, * gn...@lists.grepular.com <gn...@lists.grepular.com> [22. Jan. 2012]: [...] > I sometimes wonder if the traditional public web of trust is even a good > idea. Are you happy to be associated with everybody you've signed the > key of and those who have signed yours? Are you sure that none of these > people will do anything in the future which might cause these public > associations to become a problem for you?
When I sign a key a make a statement that I checked somehow that the key "belongs to" a specific person P. I might make further claims via a notation or a policy url but I don't have to. Merely stating that I proved someones identity of P should not mean anything else. But you are right, perhaps in the future P will be known to be a christ|communist|murderer|free software user|... and some government|churches|militia|... may come after me because I had dealings with such a person. But this might also happen because I am neighbour to P1 or was in school with P2 or even more problematic, because this christ|communist|devil|free software user|... might be me. And especially in the later case I would be happy if at least freedom loving free software users stand against inhuman and morally wrong accusations. Signing a key means signing a key. And we should fight for that if anyone gets in trouble because of it. Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
