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On Tuesday 02 December 2003 05:15 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> Pipe dream as that would be very non-standard AFAIK. |
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The IRC protocol doesn't support registered nicknames at all. NickServ itself |
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is non-standard, so there's no standards to break. |
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> Lets go back to your suggestion of GPG-signed mail for a moment. |
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> That still doesn't provide much help. I can easily generate a GPG key |
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> with your name and email address on them, and unless you have an |
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> existing key that is on the web-of-trust, I can't prove that the key is |
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> actually yours. |
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In which case, one would need to establish that they are actually talking with |
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the person who is to give the key and be sure that it is not someone else |
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they are talking with. |
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I don't see how this is any less an issue with sending new devs passwords, |
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anyway... |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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