GPG Key Signing

Evan Leibovitch evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 24 16:51:05 UTC 2006


Jamon Camisso wrote:

>I think Evan's thought is that Thawte are selling something that is freely and openly available by other means.
>
If you want to get philosophical, it gets even deeper than that.

The whole concept of a web of trust is something that an organized 
community should be better able to provide than a single commercial entity.

Why should someone trust Thawte or Verisign? Simply because they exist 
to be trusted?

- Evan
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