-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi
On Thursday 10 March 2011 at 2:58:32 AM, in <mid:4d783e58.5090...@adversary.org>, Ben McGinnes wrote: > I have. Many, many times. There's no point doing it > for a free email service provider's domain (e.g. > gmail.com), but sometimes there are advantages in > checking for keys belonging to people at particular > organisations (e.g. government departments). This is > one of the reasons why I'd prefer MFPA's suggestion, > were it ever implemented, to be optional rather than > the default. Whatever you do with user IDs is optional, since they are just a free-text field. And of course a user wanting to make their key match more searches could include extra UIDs with additional hashes. For example John Smith <john.smith...@example.com> could include hashes of example.com and of john.smith. In any event, including the information in hashed form should make the key more likely to be found than if the info were not there at all. > If that feature weren't available, I doubt I would've > found this: > pub 1024D/B3F77236 2000-09-21 uid > Stephen Smith <stephen.smith...@aph.gov.au> sub > 2048g/0E0EEE5F 2000-09-21 > Stephen Smith was in Opposition when he made that key, > but now he's Minister of Defence. If there was a point there other than curiosity value, it went way over my head. (-: - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQE7BAEBCgClBQJNe8uEnhSAAAAAAEAAVXNpZ25pbmdfa2V5X0lEIHNpZ25pbmdf a2V5X0ZpbmdlcnByaW50IEAgIE1hc3Rlcl9rZXlfRmluZ2VycHJpbnQgQThBOTBC OEVBRDBDNkU2OSBCQTIzOUI0NjgxRjFFRjk1MThFNkJENDY0NDdFQ0EwMyBAIEJB MjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5pbxAEAIAh 17OwkWRD6Y72jkJY3RQxub8ycj2buFKS6F7uTrRKad3yaLbPv7Pmh8NKWs42YZa+ jOflm3L53gAD7slSvSWwE2pzeorIZU/Gz0MWdxXSyJUTTykwZHPzvKMwtPL0nQcJ u76y9Q821KbUfiA2gGVTZQjt7wusRF7NEZK29Bot =QdF0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
