-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 03/01/2015 04:35 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 01.03.15 15:58, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> On 03/01/2015 03:41 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >>> On 27.02.15 20:56, Werner Koch wrote: >>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:26, patr...@enigmail.net said: >
.. > >> In general I believe this to be an insufficient form of >> identification that really doesn't provide much of anything >> useful, but at least the PGP keyserver does it reasonably sane in >> its methodology by creating a signature from their CA on the >> key. Whether you put any merit to having such a CA signature or >> not is left up to the user (excluding for now the "fun" related >> to the spammy number of signatures from it) > > Yes, I know. The re-confirmation every few months together with > re-signing the keys is among the things I dislike about > keyserver.pgp.com. But in general, I think that keyservers need to > go in that direction if we want to enable easy use of OpenPGP in > email (which requires in some way or another to download missing > keys automatically). You wouldn't need the keyservers to be involved in this at all. Anyone could set up such a mail verification CA outside of the keyserver network. - -- - ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand Blog: http://blog.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk - ---------------------------- Public OpenPGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 - ---------------------------- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" (Alan Kay) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJU8zJoAAoJEP7VAChXwav6vlgH/3ZBDMyOF4TfkDaBb+N5f45n crBiableZ/2I5Flq/dR5UierB1FtEPKKifdPNG/oa36gqLfFHeVpP8DGOTTGyl5S pkhR/1SNSKIpQyfCe0nOTeaxsCR0M6lmCudrtFsUf0kokTZ8SnWgwgonP5AQPde6 w+UCXUJmjwQechR6donoHOye19eo6SQI1byo0LpKO1NMl+5ErpCFOJrcnwDE93n1 nEWJA5hytTfM6cvXJkgUJ64WogRxS7xRUbQ4dTVG3wEPl9H+IaIOMCxKWGcq7SNC hSDa/evtdtWpjo7zSLo2lpVf03fM020ax1PHLBiItJnTAszhvWkA9bfZGrdB1mg= =EW11 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
