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On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 4:39:46 PM, in <mid:201006101739.46469.mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de>, Hauke Laging wrote: > But that is the wrong argument. The correct argument is > about the key server share of spam in a world in which > nearly everyone has a public key. Of course, in that > world signatures may be used to prevent spam. So the > problem is mainly the mean time. Another solution would be hashing the email address in a key's user-id, so that somebody knowing the address could find the key on the server, but the keyserver didn't publicly list the address. I just noticed you advocate this further on in your message (-; > If you have an email address then you get spam. That is > a reliable rule. But people cannot decide not to have > an email address, that is virtually impossible. They could always use disposable email addresses, or use a different address for communication with each contact. > But > people CAN decide not to have a public key (on key > servers). They can also choose to publish a key but not to include their email address in any of the user-ids. This makes the key pretty much impossible to find without the key-id. Unfortunately it also confuses some email clients, and has web-of-trust implications (because many people are unwilling to sign a key that shows no email address). - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBTBJgG6ipC46tDG5pAQoahgP/TTRLw5Wq14HwzaZ7E9mtIGj4CrYYpJ2P E6qDpUkvHDjuprYbdiyiGFPmZsZGf7fdGXMGCy5Ym3mA0a3eVzaHHUOjS4FP/Cih J3fQSpIOYwlwmPYbweEQij6jQY5c7RO3FwpETat5cO4ChqeKNyk951gLJ2qoEpSe ZGwG7oGXVDA= =xcKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
