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Re: [75attendees] No PGP Key Signing session??

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Tue, 28 July 2009 11:29 UTC

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On 7/28/09 at 10:18 AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

>On 28 jul 2009, at 10:13, Pete Resnick wrote:
>
>>I think checking government IDs is a TERRIBLE idea (though you are 
>>certainly allowed to do so). When I sign a key, I am saying that 
>>*I* know the person.
>
>There's a difference between knowing the person and knowing the 
>person's identity...

[Philosophy warning....tread carefully]

What difference is there between knowing a person and knowing their 
identity? You're not requiring me to have some knowledge of the 
person's soul, are you?

Cartesian concepts of identity need to be divorced from key signing. 
I think Wittgenstinian concepts might work a bit better.

[End philosophy warning]

If I wanted to know whether who the government thinks a person is, 
I'd have asked the government to sign their key. I'll ask you to sign 
if I want to know if *you* know who the person is. "The person I've 
seen at the IETF who keeps wearing the Iljitsch badge" is close 
enough for me.

pr
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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
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