Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Lukas Beeler <lb-lists@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: Ryan Phillips <ryan.phillips@××××.edu>, Maik Schreiber <blizzy@g.o>, rphillips@g.o, spider@g.o, gentoo-core@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] on the matter of security and cryptography
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 16:19:21
Message-Id: 20020805211852.GF107@may.projectdream.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] on the matter of security and cryptography by Ryan Phillips
1 * Ryan Phillips <ryan.phillips@××××.edu>:
2 > Not entirely the case... Daniel could call me, and since I trust
3 > daniels PGP key I could have him sign a quote that I state over the phone.
4
5 And how exactly do you make sure, that you are talking to Daniel?
6 You dont have a Passport, which officially states who he is, you
7 cant compare the foto. Signing over a phone line is completely
8 worthless, and destroys the web of trust.
9
10 --
11 I have been standardizing locations for each of my files. Non-standard
12 locations for those files, like non-standard locations for /dev/null and
13 /etc/resolv.conf and /bin/sh, are not supported.
14 -- D. J. Bernstein

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