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
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