On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:43:52AM -0800, Randy Burns wrote: > > > OTOH, addresses taken from the addressbook as available on the host > > > (== zombie Windows PC) are much more effective than harvesting the web > > > or kyeservers. These local addresses are more certain to actually be > > > used and even better: the recipient of the spam knows the sender. > > > > Indeed. It is also possible that the keyservers aren't being targeted > > specifically as keyservers, but rather that people have links to > > keyserver searches out there, and the spammers are just using a > > crawler that happens to follow that link. Some keyservers don't > > obfuscate their search results. > > Something to think about when organizing a keysigning too. Avoid putting a > participant list on a webpage. Just a keyring maybe.
Good point. I like the service that biglumber provides for keysignings. It nicely automates a lot of the bookkeeping, tracks the participant list, etc. It also makes the information spam-unfriendly. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
