wait, what does this mean exactly? the stickman used their pgp private key to sign a text file that contains the girls public key? is this a taboo in the pgp world for some reason?
The joke here is that he has no idea who this girl is and yet he still signed her key. This is dangerous, because he is vouching for her identity. If he is mistaken, this could result in a serious loss of credibility on his part.
I’m not cool enough to get invited to those sorts of parties.
Let’s host a Matrix one, but everyone has to come wearing a sick black coat and thin dark sunglasses
I’m in
wait, what does this mean exactly? the stickman used their pgp private key to sign a text file that contains the girls public key? is this a taboo in the pgp world for some reason?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Signing the key was certifying that anyone who knows him should trust her.
You would normally go through the verification procedures in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party before doing that.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/364:_Responsible_Behavior
ExplainXKCD…because I’m not smart.