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MIT Keysigner CA
On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Derek Atkins wrote:
> everyone to sign everyone else's key. We plan to make the MIT
> Keysigner key widely distributed, and ask that everyone trust that key
> to sign other keys.
It seems strange that people would be expected to trust a key to sign
other keys, just because somebody (even Derek, whom I have a measure of
respect for) asked them to. I trust a key to be an introducer if and when
I am sure that a signature by that key means that the signed key belongs
to the identity (be it "real" or a 'nym) it claims to represent.
Authentication via Kerbie may or may not indicate this. Such a signature
would give some information that I might use to make decisions on whether
or not to trust the new key, but it certainly would not be trusted if it
was the only signature.
Happy Hunting, -Chris.
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