> What other people do says nothing about me, and everything about > them.
Except that 99% of people who see that signature will think you have an association with white supremacists. Should they? No. Will they? Yes. The average person doesn't have a formal/mathematical model of trust and what it means. They have a loose, poorly-specified understanding, like "only sign certificates of people you know well." This leads them to thinking, "well, this white supremacist group must know Chris well". That's a false inference, but it's one a *large* number of people draw. > On popular keys, such as Facebook's, or any other public figure, > there are going to accumulate signatures that aren't a part of > anybody's Web of Trust. Until such time that these signatures can > constitute a genuine threat to the Web of Trust, they're irrelevant. So you're now changing your statement: signatures *don't* always strengthen the WoT -- a large number of them are irrelevant. This is much closer to reality. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users