On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:02:20AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > For example, I recognize Muli's key because he showed it to me when we > were in last year's August Penguin event. Muli might have signed with his > key a statement that he knows Linus Torvalds' key because he (may have) > met Linus in a conference last month. Now, if Linus Torvalds sends me
Actually, if Linus showed his face there, I must've been too busy hacking or chatting on IRC to see ;-) I did meets lots of other people whose code we all run every day. > a signed email, I can recognize his signature to be genuine (with a certain > degree of confidence) - even though I never met him before, and no central > authority has decreed this signature to be authentic. Stupid geek bragging: according to the latest keyanalyze report (http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/2003-09-07/top1000table.html) I am number 733 in the global web of trust. Nyah ;-) -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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