Re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> > How do they verify that the person confirming the fingerprint is indeed the
> > person supposedly owning the key?
> 
> Thats up to the people signing. In most cases in that sort of
> environment, you know about 30% of the people in the room, and you
> sign their keys (and no one elses, which is reasonable).

This is pretty much the  pure web-o-trust model - the identity of the 
person is assmed to be known at the start of the process, and what is 
verified is the key- closure gets you the other folks.

I'm usually not to keen on WOT, but if it was an AI project, this is
the example that would be in the writeup :-)