[Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

Thomas Zander thomas at thomaszander.se
Mon Sep 15 07:23:02 UTC 2014


On Sunday 14. September 2014 08.28.27 Peter Todd wrote:
> Do we have any evidence Satoshi ever even had access to that key? Did he
> ever use PGP at all for anything?

Any and all PGP related howtos will tell you that you should not trust or sign 
a formerly-untrusted PGP (or GPG for that matter) key without seeing that 
person in real life, verifying their identity etc.

I think that kind of disqualifies pgp for identity purposes wrt Satoshi :-)

-- 
Thomas Zander




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