Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 18/05/2020 12:12, Stefan Claas wrote: > > You can argue now that you can give a freeform UID the name rob or > > rjh too, but this would maybe not so good, because your are > > publicity known as rob or rjh, thus defeating the purpose a bit. > > If your threat model includes your endpoint device being compromised > and leaking your contact list, then you should be implementing an > extra layer of protection such as Tails and/or a hidden VeraCrypt > volume. In the vast majority of scenarios, endpoint compromise is > Game Over, and tinkering with obfuscation will not help you.
Agreed! It should be also mentioned, that if UID-less public keyblocks end up more and more on keyservers it is harder for 3rd parties to maintain a database, since as you know, everybody is still be able to download complete keyserver dumps from SKS. Thanks to Vincent this is no longer possible with Hagrid! Regards Stefan -- Signal (Desktop) +4915172173279 https://keybase.io/stefan_claas _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
