Thank you for all the replies!
Martin On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Brian Minton <br...@minton.name> wrote: > > > On 10/17/2016 11:41 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> On Mon 2016-10-17 06:31:16 -0400, Martin T wrote: >> >>> I am aware that one can update all the keys in local-keyring from a >>> keyserver using "gpg --refresh-keys". Are there any disadvantages to >>> simply put this command into user crontab and execute for example once >>> a day? >> The only disadvantages are if you don't want to reveal the contents of >> your keyring to the public keyservers, or to announce your presence on >> the network. >> >> If you prefer to do these things in an anonymized way, you might prefer >> a tool like parcimonie, > > I run a key server, which allows me to do as many key-retrieval queries > as I like, without giving any information away to the rest of the > world. It also helps a little, but not completely, with the problem of > adding keys to the keyserver network, with respect to my social > network. In particular, it's not easy for any keyserver to see which of > its peers' peers a given key or set of keys, originated from. However, > in theory, an attacker could track the progress of a given key across > the network of keyservers by quick querying, but it's a pretty small > window between the introduction of keys to a single member of the pool, > and it being shared to all the keyservers. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
