From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:26:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Who would sign Lucky Green's key?
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960124081315.008c4a88@mail.teleport.com>
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At 11:24 PM 1/23/96 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
>The latest discussion about key signing parties and related questions asked
>in private email got me thinking about signing keys for nyms. What would
>one have to know to sign a key for a nym? Would you sign my key? Why?

There are nym keys i have signed before.  They are usually for nyms of
friends and they are usually signed with another nym key.  Kind of a
fictional web of trust...

I normally only sign keys for people I have met and trust to be the
individual with the key claimed.  "True names" and other legal fictions do
not interest me as much as the individuals involved.

Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
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