[Noisebridge-discuss] CryptoParty! or, keysigning parties go all ScaryCaps

[David Tomaschik]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Quinn Norton <quinn at quinnnorton.com> wrote:
>> On 9/8/12 8:23 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, in more seriousness, I'm interested in more keysigning and
>>> preparation for a { present where we want to | future where we may
>>> need to } use more crypto.
>>>
>> I'm just going to point out that keysigning is a terrible idea. ARGUMENT:
>> BEGIN! :)
>
> What's so bad about them?

I'm guessing that the argument here will be that it exposes the social
network of those using encryption.  I guess that's bad if its bad for
your threat model.  :)

>> But you know what would be awesome to add in to a cryptoparty? Discussions
>> of threat modelling!
>
> This is always fun to theorize and imagine about, but doesn't seem
> very productive.
>
>> seewhatididthere?
>
> Troll detected? I can't tell.
>
> --j



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