Peter S. May wrote: > I would think that it's important for keyservers to widely distribute > the revocation certificates of revoked signatures.
Agreed. But it's not important to distribute signatures that have been revoked. > If the keyservers > simply omitted revoked signatures from search results, how would a > client know that this uid was revoked? Because the server could, and presumably would, still distribute revocation signatures, but not the signatures they revoke. > Stripping data that isn't > particularly useful is a job better left to the client. I disagree. Downloading the data only to discard it is a waste of time and bandwidth. -Alex Mauer "hawke" -- Bad - You get pulled over for doing 90 in a school zone and you're drunk off your ass again at three in the afternoon. Worse - The cop is drunk too, and he's a mean drunk. FUCK! - A mean drunk that's actually a swarm of semi-sentient flesh-eating beetles. OpenPGP key id: 51192FF2 @ subkeys.pgp.net
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