-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:05:21 +0000 MFPA wrote: >> I can't speak for other people, but I can for me. Take >> > a look at the UIDs on my key, which is >> > 0xC7C66ADF3DB6D884. And also, take a look at my master >> > key 0x2188A92DF05045C2 that I signed the other key >> > with. > >> > Each of those e-mail addresses on my keys are ones that >> > were already associated with my real name. I had given >> > each of those addresses to family, friends, associates, >> > businesses, or a combination of them. Not one of those >> > accounts had given me any anonymity, and each had been >> > shared outside of people I knew personally. > >> > By uploading a key with those addresses on it, does >> > that mean I gave up privacy that I already had? No. > > It looks to me as if the answer is "yes." Unless each person who had > one of your email addresses already knew the other addresses before > seeing them on your key, they now have extra information about you. > And the addresses have jumped from "shared outside of people [you] > knew personally" to published in a universally-accessible location. > However minor/negligible or unimportant you may consider it, that's a > reduction in privacy.
You are, of course, assuming all of my contacts know what PGP is, how to use a keyserver, and have fetched and examined my key. Although I have potentially disclosed my e-mail addresses to the whole world, my actual disclosure has been less than had I posted those e-mail addresses to a web page or handed a copy of my key UIDs to whomever. But you know what? I don't care. I created those UIDs with the belief that if I shared them with one person, I shared them with the world. I intentionally made that information public, which is different from accidental disclosure. Also the use of a keyserver in my case was good, because I don't have any means of distributing my key electronically other than by e-mailing my key to every person that may request it. So a keyserver fits the way I want to work. - -Paul - -- Privacy is good. Use PGP. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PGP Key ID: 0x3DB6D884 | | PGP Fingerprint: EBA7 88B3 6D98 2D4A E045 A9F7 C7C6 6ADF 3DB6 D884 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJLox97AAoJEJhBiuhgbQLIgEAL/1hXd6DAMcX+goDdipUMt1Yd 5dqnSKbGsC0Rp9Ewa2aZTPzfb4AyAdhjugp+2oX17+47Ijz8CgRP5iCSzEwhW6gl JqKWrKL13f88vN97iauBI/TYiUoEBpMFvreYlu0X8g7qGK9WN1ul4SfFUNaBbXJt /OXfACs7PbSUSN8XvqprOHV+p9uAFNpLIjIYpKZpt4GzhjIF7ifg7fBSw8VdXXBI qahG0c6OqFBU10kJgZlHOM+ZSoqlS9B3M3DR54DLmgwNOhzFkOu5lgOpURY9FrZP 4XYt5hasn/FapiUh5qk8A0QRSLrXUyM7jgntK6KwIFHmurss+eyZRfxBnzveVVbR M2WM9k+AyQnpWwjpxeAR2qQAAjljBDj5TuAEYwlXw6dBb/eQAUcr3SmEdSUDx9BV Q2x37xMN5191xEYqVjNT5FtQko2wGCFSA4qWRbvi+DXV0KVGbTW1N2FBXLtQS1Gc QtndM+4MIf9UkLMnUYJriDnQmgOPiQmJAJzi8gnhuQ== =hLHd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
