On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Till Maas wrote:
I used my access to the signing server to verify the key before signing
it. But why is confirming the fingerprint here a step forward? Why would
someone search in this mailing list for the fingerprint of the gpg key?
FWIW, the signing server just gave me a public key with this fingerprint
when I asked for the Fedora 24 signing key:
pub 4096R/81B46521 2015-07-25 Fedora (24) <fedora-24-primary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Key fingerprint = 5048 BDBB A5E7 76E5 47B0 9CCC 73BD E983 81B4 6521
This is the important part, you state that you have access to the server
that uses the private key for 4096R/81B46521. You may have first-hand
knowledge how the persons using this key protect this private key and you
have even knowledge of these person's trustworthiness and professionalism.
That and only that constitutes the value of your signature as opposed to
mine if I had signed the key.
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