Re: Listing PGP keys...

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2000-01-27 23:57:25 +0100, Terje Elde wrote:

> Why not simply list all the matching keys, and then let the user
> choose one of those, and then let gpg do the valitify check on
> it's own?

First of all, it may quite well be possible that there is a unique
key matching an e-mail address with a fully valid user id to key
association.  In this case, there is no need to ask the user.

Then, the software should tell the user about the validity of the
keys it presents to him.

> How about DSS/DH? 95% of the keys around are DSS/DH keys.

I don't need 99.999% or so of the keys around.  Fortunately, most of
those people I communicate with using PGP belong to the 5% of PGP
users having RSA keys.

(For the rest, I keep copies of pgp5 and gpg around.)

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