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On Thursday 5 August 2010 at 11:32:37 PM, in <mid:1281047557.13753.19.ca...@ubuntu>, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > So the question isn't whether key management is the > major reason why people sign up and don't hang around > -- the question is more whether key management is a > major expense which adversely affects the cost-benefit > ratio. Fair enough. > As an example, if I were to start posting tomorrow's > winning lottery numbers to PGPNET, If you have them, could you PM them to me, please? (-; > Some years ago I offered to write a tool for the group > which would help manage the key problem. (Kind of.) > The idea was to write a small Windows app that would > automatically download the membership list once a day > and update Enigmail's pgprules.xml file. This meant > Enigmail users would no longer be maintaining > per-recipient rule lists by hand (which is tedious, > error-prone, and frustrating for newbies). The process > would be entirely automated. > Ultimately, the group decided not to take me up on the > offer -- the overwhelming opinion was that they'd > rather get experience editing pgprules.xml by hand. > C'est la vie. :) Whether fully automated or ran on demand, I'm quite surprised *nobody* was interested. I don't use Thunderbird/Enigmail, so it wouldn't help me; I make use of jasontik's group line generator to update the group line in my gpg.conf after roll-calls or after a period of absence from the group - other than that I just edit that line manually to add or delete the odd key ID. > It sounds like a great idea, up until you consider that > even if the spam overhead problem is reduced by a > factor of 10, that gain gets obliterated once a few > more people join the network. The spam overhead > follows an exponential growth. When dealing with > exponential curves, linear reductions -- even large > linear reductions -- are pretty much meaningless. I take it the "spam overhead problem" you refer to is things like "not encrypted to my key" messages? - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com A closed mouth gathers no foot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBTF2eu6ipC46tDG5pAQqU2gP/d/x/NR6CpcNe/b/HLHhy6T0EQNGUuuPr 6qqyoZXxeTDHtSq834p529CY3RRAJxded7IDkEkkcaXPajhQ4V28CU9ZGplMm6Nb HlHW5cj09XOeDY+VLEQt9b7iw0uGbWWBXv96LHMtQH4hYQsGf+6O6lNyiihcMCFs wrCwjaAzfaY= =XMAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
