Re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting

[shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)]

At 16:40 1/23/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>Each person gets a sheet. Either each person in the room reads their
>fingerprint in turn from their own copy, with each person in the room
>checking the read fingerprint against the fingerprint on the handout,
>or an appointed reader (or set of readers at the last IETF) read the
>fingerprints in turn and ask the owner of the key to then simply say
>"yes" or "its mine" or whatever to verify that the fingerprint matches
>their own copy of the print.

How do they verify that the person confirming the fingerprint is indeed the
person supposedly owning the key?


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