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Re: Photo ID is not needed for key signings....
At 10:33 PM -0700 6/12/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <v0300786dafc68637a08c@[207.94.249.152]>, on 06/12/97
> at 10:14 PM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> said:
>>If you have a version of the key with no signatures, then you can change
>>the data field and re-sign with the associated secret key. Since the
>>data field has changed, you properly need to have others re-verify the
>>validity of the binding.
>
>I don't think that any changes that he would make to his key would need
>re-verification provided that he signed those changes. Take the following
>scenario:
>
>John Doe creates a key and signs it:
>
>pub 2048/FFFFFFFF 01/01/90 John Doe
>sig John Doe (0xFFFFFFFF)
>
>Now 3 other people verify that the key does belong to John Doe and sign
>the key:
>
>pub 2048/FFFFFFFF 01/01/90 John Doe [email protected]
>sig John Doe (0xFFFFFFFF)
>sig Mary Jane (0xAAAAAAAA)
>sig Tom Thumb (0x11111111)
>sig Tiny Tim (0xCCCCCCCC)
>
>Now John adds an aka to his key and signs it.
>
>pub 2048/FFFFFFFF 01/01/90 John Doe [email protected]
>sig John Doe (0xFFFFFFFF)
>sig Mary Jane (0xAAAAAAAA)
>sig Tom Thumb (0x11111111)
>sig Tiny Tim (0xCCCCCCCC)
>aka John Doe [email protected]
>sig John Doe (0xFFFFFFFF)
>
>Since John Doe is the only one who could sign the key with the new aka one
>can assume that the aka is as valid as the original userid.
So if John Doe wants to be known as "[email protected]" or "Tim May
<[email protected]>" all he has to do is change the field, and upload the
changed key to the key servers, and all the signatures should remain good?
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