David Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:02:56AM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote: > >>David Shaw wrote: >> >> >>>I'd be all in favor of an option where users could elect to filter out >>>keys: that would put the user in control. Forcing your decision on >>>others by stripping signatures is a very disturbing step. >> >>Considering the behaviour of the GD, I'd say it's also a practical issue >>about resources: if it keeps signing keys like this, an SKS server might >>well be in need of seriously more hardware than it is now. Someone's got >>to pay for that, amd I don't think all keyserver maintainers want to. > > > I have sympathy for that argument, so wouldn't it be good to trace > down where the sigs are entering the keyserver net, and ask whoever is > doing it to stop? It seems like the obvious first step. >
Well, I don't know *where* they are coming from, but I (and the kind soul who worked it out and told me) know think we know *how* it's being done. And unfortunately, it's very easy (too easy!) to do, especially for someone with a high-speed internet connection. -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
