Assuming trusting the intermediary can prove to someone another person identity?

[Benjamin-Loison]

Like the web of trust.

The idea being that verified both persons identities and want to make each other prove the other one with just interacting with me.

My phone convinced of someone identity:

On another phone trusting mine and trying to be convinced for future interactions of the identity of this person:

En savoir plus redirects to https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060632.

My phone convinced of someone identity:

Learn more redirects to https://signal.org/redirect/safety-numbers

Another phone trusting mine trying to be convinced of this person identity while already having exchanged with it:

The safety numbers differ. So it does not work except if request the person identity to share his safety number by message and I transmit it to the other phone who compare it:

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• [ ] This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Device: Manufacturer Model XVI Android version: 0.0.0 Signal version: 0.0.0

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