On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:59:40AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Of course we could even discuss what's part of the name?! What about > academic titles like "Dr." or "PhD", stuff from monarchy (OBE, Sir, > Dame, HRH, Prince, etc.) religious "titles" like "PP", "Cardinal", etc.?
What about second/third ... names, name changes (e.g. marriage), offical pseudonyms (e.g. artist names in Germany), ... ? > Despite of the fact, that it's difficutl to decide what's a complete > name, I (= my opinion) think, that signers should have a look on > completeness. > The reason: As a mathematicion I consider incompleteness as > incorrectness, that's even what OpenPGP (and actually every digital > signature system) does: If you "just" remove something from the signed > data, signatures won't validate. I think you're confusing the "completeness" of the identity with the complete name. Although commonly used, a name is not a good measure for identity. For example, I have different spellings of my name on different official ID cards :) If you require a mathematical completeness, use the key ID. If used for mail encryption/signatures it makes no sense to be more strict than for the email address itself. Michel
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