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From: Alexander Gretencord <arutha@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] on the matter of security and cryptography
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 04:14:40
Message-Id: 200208051114.36218.arutha@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] on the matter of security and cryptography by Maik Schreiber
1 On Sunday 04 August 2002 19:46, Maik Schreiber wrote:
2 > As I personally ignore any signatures on any key that are from people I
3 > don't personally know and trust, "your" signature on his key wouldn't
4 > compromise anything in my system, since his key is effectively untrusted.
5
6 Yep you do, but many ppl will ignore this completely or at least trust
7 signatures from ppl like seemant or drobbins without checking anything. Of
8 course it's nearly impossible to make things secure for those ppl. Just take
9 me, I won't be able to really verify anything as I don't know anyone
10 personally that could sign their keys. Basically I can't fully trust anyone.
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13 Alex
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15 --
16 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
17 deserve neither liberty nor safety."
18 Benjamin Franklin