Welcome to Mark Laubach's Thawte.com Web Of Trust Page
Updated: 12 April 2006
I am a [past] notary with the Thawte.com Web
of Trust, frequently abbrievated as "WOT". In addition, my
PGP RSA key is listed in the
The Global Internet Trust Register
The Thawte Web of Trust was discontinued on 16 November 2009. See the Thawte Wikdipedia page.
The remainder of this page is for historical preservation.
I live in the Mountain View / Sunnyvale / Cupertino / Los Altos
area and can easily make arrangements to meet with you to validate
your credentials for Thawte WOT points.
At this time, I am easily available for meetings, including those
outside these towns.
WOT notarization requires these forms of in date
government issued id's: such as
- state/national issued driver's license,with photo ID
- country issued passport, with photo ID
- country issued immigration card, with photo ID
- state/national issued taxpayer certificate, e.g. U.S. social
security card
The WOT point system is based on notarizing assured identify
credentials. The more credentials, the more points I will assign.
The maximum number of points I can give out is 35 points. Here
is my point system:
- State/national ID with photo (e.g. driver's license, passport,
"green" card) - 10 points each
- State/national ID without a photo (e.g. U.S. social security
card) - 5 points
- From one of your WOT registered email addresses:
- Exchanging email with me at laubach@matmos.com
- 5 points
- Sending me PGP signed or signed&encrypted mail to me at
laubach@matmos.com< - 5 points
- Make sure your certificate or key is available on the
appropriate public server(s) so I can obtain it for
verification of the signature, do not send me the key or
certificate.
- I call up directory service and ask for you, they give me a
phone number, I call up, you answer - 5 points
There are some requirements:
- If you used a non-photo ID number as your WOT national
identification number you must bring the original of
that card and a state/national photo ID
- For example: You used a U.S. Social Security Number
card, then also bring a driver's license or passport or
both
- You must bring a xerographic copy of each ID and
the original
- If the ID number you used for your Thawte.com national ID
number is expired, then you must bring the expired ID as well as
the in date replacement ID.
- For example, if your passport expired and that number was
used in your WOT registration, bring that passport as well as
the replacement passport.
Here is the process:
- We meet somewhere
- You give me your IDs and your photo copies
- I give you a form to fill out
- I examine each copy and verify it is a copy of the original
and everything is in date
- I examine each original Photo ID and verify that the photo is
a reasonable likeness of you
- I examine each copy Photo ID and verify that the copy photo is
a reasonable likeness of you
- If everything looks good, I sign the form, indicate assignment
points, and keep the copies. You get your originals
back.
- Within 24 hours of our meeting, I will
- verify that at least one of the credentials you presented
matches your WOT national identify number,
- and if so, will then update your Thawte.com WOT points, and
you will receive a message from Thawte.com about the
update
- and if not, I will get back in contact with you
If you are a PGP user and you would like me to sign your
key(s):
- Please make sure your PGP public key is registered in the
public key servers for each key you want me to sign.
- Dust off your PGP application and please sign or sign &
encrypt at least one of your email messages to me using one of
your keys.
- If you want to obtain PGP, check out the http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
Freeware distribution or the products at http://www.pgp.com/ PGP Security.
- Bring a physical copy of your PGP key fingerprint(s) with you,
do not send them to me ahead of time. I'll keep the copy.
- If you forget to bring a copy, then that's ok. We'll create
a shared secret when we meet.
- I will sign your PGP key(s) within 24 hours after I receive
your fingerprint(s) and send you the signed keys in an encrypted
and signed email message.
- It will be up to you to update the servers.
My PGP public keys:
How to contact me:
Mark
Laubach,
Cuperitno,
CA
408.867.4806 (voicemail)
650.996.2219 (cell)
650.618.1492 (fax)
laubach@inconvenient.net
