On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:24 +0000, MFPA wrote: > My point was that not everybody wishes/chooses to send their keys to > the keyservers. > > Some people hate the idea and get *very* upset if their key does end > up on the servers.
In my case, the reason that I uploaded my keys to public keyservers was to make it possible for anyone who wanted to privately communicate with me to do so. Even if I didn't know them. If the reason for keeping the public key to yourself is that you don't want anyone, except for a selected few, to know your "secret" e-mail address, then create two e-mail addresses. One will only be shared with people you know intimately, and the other will be for the public. I never understood how anyone would want to use PGP for e-mail privacy, and, subsequently, keep the public key a secret! I don't see any reason why a person would keep his key off the public keyservers, short of preventing spam. And you know what, he would get spammed anyway.
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