[i removed h...@anonymous.sex; never did such..] Michael Richardson wrote in <20925.1736187...@obiwan.sandelman.ca>: |Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: |> There is one remaining reason for having a network of synced |> keyservers: To distribute revocations. | |> Lookup of keys by anything other than a fingerprint has no more |> justification. And for that feature a simple distibuted storage for |> revocations would be better than the complex keyserver software we have |> today. | |So if we mapped key IDs to convenient directory sized blocks, we could just |use rsync? | |> - Distribute the key along with your mail address using the Web Key |> directory. | |aren't there also proposals to do this via special mime types?
"Problem" is that .asc is not only used for key distribution, but also for normal signatures. Iirc this at least bites the original intent. I should reread all of PKI etc. A combination of DKIM and special email addresses which send emails which are signed and include the public key so that the email can be used to verify itself also seems a cryptographically verifiable thing (if it is). And if only ever DNSSEC would be supported by the giants... (I still cannot believe that these post quantum things will all be so terribly huge data things.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |In Fall and Winter, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s pint(er). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
