UDS signing party

[dan]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Lars Wirzenius <lars at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> pe, 2009-04-24 kello 00:16 -0400, Scott Kitterman kirjoitti:
>> I'd like to suggest reconsidering the idea of a key signing party.  It is
>> somewhat human nature to get careless when performing the same operation
>> repetitively.  There have been cases in the past where keysigning parties
>> were used as venues for social engineering to get people to sign keys they
>> shouldn't have.
>
> That's why I've been toying with the idea of the "matrix keysigning
> party": to reduce the number of keysignings you have to do while keeping
> the key path lengths reasonably short within the group, assuming most
> people sign most people.
>
> (Short summary: arrange people in a square. First everyone in the same
> row sign each other, then everyone in the same column. Up to
> 2*ceilsqrt(n)) keysignings per person; for 200 people, that's 30, which
> is still a lot, of course.)
>

Is there any danger of the Macarena spontaneously breaking out?

dan