On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:30, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > Because it is the e-mail address of the recipient you look up; that's all the > data you have in this scenario. Thus, for me you would look up a key > corresponding to user peter at the domain digitalbrains.com. The only logical
Right. That is the whole point. We want to make keys invisible. You can't explain easily why you need a separate public key if you already have an email address. Thus from the user's point of view the email address is the public key. > digitalbrains.com, which is under control of the e-mail provider. ISP here > means > e-mail provider, by the way, perhaps that is the confusion. Unless I'm the one Sure, email provider. However for most users this is identical to the ISP: First of all they need a connection to the Internet. Unless you spend a lot of money for the connections you will get an email address along with your user identification for DSL access. The email provider sets up something like /etc/aliases for the mail address and some of them also enter records into their zone file with the mailbox name for anti-spam protocols. They need to enter yet another record into a zone file to allow a key lookup by the assigned mail address. Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users