On second thoughts, Shreepadma sits right next to me so I will just ask her
for the fingerprint. I guess we should make it a priority for signing the
committer keys in meetups and the like.

Regards,
Arvind


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]>wrote:

> Here is what I had in mind:
>
> - Shreepadma gives me the Key ID and Fingerprint over email
> - I pull the key matching that ID from the keyserver and verify the
> fingerprint
> - If that information matches, I sign and publish the key
>
> Do you think this is not appropriate to do that?
>
> Regards,
> Arvind
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013, at 01:43 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote:
>> > Hi Shreepadma,
>> >
>> > I am happy to sign and publish your key. Can you confirm the finger
>> > print?
>>
>> Why would you sign a GPG key with confirmation over the Internet? How
>> can you confirm that the key belongs to the person who you think you're
>> talking to? Email is very, very easy to spoof. This does not give me
>> confidence in a key that you're signing.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> jzb
>> --
>> Joe Brockmeier
>> [email protected]
>> Twitter: @jzb
>> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
>>
>
>

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