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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:36:49 +0000 Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Neil, > > Phew! A long reply. Not what I was expecting, at all. :-) > Yeah, I get told I'm long winded but hey, this ends up on a public > archive and sometimes it's best to cover more of the audience than the > composer of the previous thread. Maybe. Quite so. Some people get uptight about it, though. As a result, I often add a comment like "You probably already know", or "At the risk of teaching Grandma to suck eggs". If I know they won't take offence, though... > > meeting up was non-existent, due to the fact I live in the UK, and > > some of the other people lived as far apart as New Zealand, South > > Africa, and Sweden. > There are ways around that, -ish. There are intermediaries, after all, > my key has been signed by Kai who spends time in Finland. It's not > that far fetched to consider someone else in Finland who has signed > Kai's key and also signed a well-known key in Sweden. That in turn > could link to the key you want to trust. Both my key and Kai's key are > signed by Debian developers who do meet across geographical > boundaries, a little knock-on effect and I reckon NZ and SA are not > beyond the scope of the web of trust. I've got some long-distance keys > in my keyring (from correspondence on gnupg-users) which show as fully > trusted and one owner lives in Australia (if you can believe the TLD). It's that sort of thing that I meant when I said about jumping through hoops. It got quite convoluted. All fun, though. > Getting your key signed by as many local people as you can will not > harm the possibility of such a connection - you're almost bound to > meet someone whose work or lifestyle allows keysigning across I've always got my eyes open for key signing parties, etc. > I find this site invaluable in this type of connection: > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/ Noted, for future reference. > There have been odd occassions that I've imported a key via > auto-key-retrieve that has become instantly fully trusted because of > the web of trust. It does work. Of course. If it didn't, there wouldn't be any point, would there? :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.