Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:45:45PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > A common approach to this for at least the e-mail portion of the address
> > is to sign the ID with the address and then mail the signed key
> > encrypted to the address, deleting all local copies and requiring that
> > the recipient publish the signature.  This at least demonstrates that
> > the owner of the key can read mail at that address.

> The assumption here is the attacker can read (and write) victim's email.
> It's not about verifying email access or address.

Bear in mind that this is only done after a successful out of band
verification - it's purely about verifying the e-mail portion of the
identity which the person has already asserted that they control.
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