David Shaw wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:53:12AM -0500, Alex L. Mauer wrote: > There are several reasons why it is a good idea for keyservers to > store multiple signatures, but the main one is that they do not > currently have any crypto code to actually verify the signatures. > Without the ability to know if a given signature is good or bad, the > keyservers cannot make any decisions as to what signatures to keep or > drop.
Aha, it makes sense now. I had assumed that the keyservers were able to verify signatures. > > GnuPG can verify signatures, of course, and so can safely prune them. > Incidentally, PGP prunes as well. It's the only way to keep keys to a > rational size over a long period of time. Then I guess I hope this feature will come along at some point. -Alex Mauer "Hawke"
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