Hello Justina Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2018, 08:23 -0900 schrieb justina colmena via Gnupg-users: > On December 9, 2018 7:54:01 AM EST, Stefan Claas < > stefan.cl...@posteo.de> wrote:: > > Get a sig from a CA and then upload your key via email. > > > That's a bit steep, and was never the original goal of PGP or GPG.
Correct. > If the goal is to eliminate the bulk of bad keys and junk from key > servers, an account creation with basic email verification for adding > or removing keys should suffice. That's something I thought about, too. > Let's be honest: no one really wants an infrastructure of legally > valid or enforceable GPG signatures, either. It's a technical > verification that something is very unlikely to be altered if the > signature is valid. Any particular overriding legal significance > beyond that is unnecessary. Legal significcance is one point and it's to complicated in many countries. > Don't overdo it, please. PGP key servers are not supposed to be > "authoritative." They are a convenience to extend an informal web of > trust. Let's resist that German urge toward authoritarianism and > absolutism, shall we? Yeah, RIGHT! As a German I say, this urge in Germany and even in Europe is totally silly at all. They are making an A 380 out of a duck, so to say. Or like we call it in germany: "eine Mücke zu einem Elefanten machen". > Bosses and bullies do not help with privacy, personal digital > signatures, or cryptography for personal use. The CA stuff is mostly > for business, not personal. The adversaries in that case are > pickpockets and credit card skimmers, not major governments and > political enemies. Right, but, to be honest, in some cases a GPG signature should be even enough to prove the origin in a legal way. Some countries accept this already, but not in silly old europe. Okay, EU sucks, but that's another topic. Regards, Dirk -- Dirk Gottschalk Paulusstrasse 6-8 52064 Aachen, Germany GPG: DDCB AF8E 0132 AA54 20AB B864 4081 0B18 1ED8 E838 Keybase.io: https://keybase.io/dgottschalk GitHub: https://github.com/Dirk1980ac
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