[Cryptography] PGP Key Signing parties

[Richard Outerbridge]

On 2013-10-16 (289), at 16:29:32, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com> wrote:

> The point I was trying to make when I started the thread was not so much to ask whether they took place as to whether they could be improved and made more useful if they were recognized as distinct events with a specific set of endorsement attributes.
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> I agree with Jon and others that the existing practice is not exactly ideal. But I think that we could do better.
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> In particular, I was thinking of key ceremony as being potentially a means of spreading the use of strong crypto beyond ultra-techy communities. To doctors, lawyers etc.
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> Such groups would probably require (and pay for) the services of a compere to run the process. If it was appropriately designed it can become part of the social mingling.

It would need the legal formality and recognition of a wedding ceremony: an identity binding ritual, forever and alwaze, until divorced we may become.

Otherwize it's NSA, as hookups are known.
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