[TriLUG] Can I trust that key?

[Mike Mueller]

On Friday 12 December 2003 18:48, greg at turnstep.com wrote:
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> > But how do you trace a line
> > a trust to someone like Klaus?
>
> Use a web-based tool, specifically the one at kjsl.com linked to from the
> biglumber listings, to check the Web of Trust. I got the following back for
> my key:
>
> Looking for path from 0x14964AC8 to 0xBA8F038D
> 7171 nodes examined. 7194 elements in the hash
> 4 steps from 0x14964AC8 to 0xBA8F038D
> 0x14964AC8 (Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at turnstep.com>) signs
> 0x7527701B (J. Brian Coyle <brianc at magicnet.net>) signs
> 0x9A209C50 (Daniel Luebke <ich at daniel-luebke.de>) signs
> 0x4A27F015 (Jochen Hein <jochen.hein at delphi.central.de>) signs
> 0xBA8F038D (Klaus Knopper <knopper at linuxtag.de>) signs
>
> Some URLS of interest:
>
> http://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html
> http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keysigning.html
> http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
>
> You could also google the keyid and see if the key has built up a history.
> There are only about 10 hits on google for K.Knopper's key, so that is
> not a very strong indication in this case, but at least there is a path
> to him (for me, anyway).

5 degrees of separation. Cool.  Looks like the time has come for me to jump 
in the WoT.

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