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

From: Melvin Carvalho <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:49:53 +0200

On 15 September 2014 09:23, Thomas Zander <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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 :-)
>

But I presume that if the key is on bitcoin.org,  you can probably infer
that the owner of the key and the original owner of bitcoin.org are one and
the same ...

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