On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:24:10 -0900, justina colmena via Gnupg-users wrote: > A keyserver is a convenience. Of course it's not magic. Right now I > am using K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain on Android. When I received the > above message from the list, K-9 Mail informed me that it was signed > with a key with fingerprint "0xff80ae9d1dec358d", and referred me to > the OpenKeychain app, which searched keyservers and found a matching > public key, which I was allowed to import to verify the signature, > which I did so successfully.
Sure, thats the way it works. If Werner and you for example had an implementation of Autocrypt installed then you would not need a key server. ;-) But what we are pointing out here are the problems the current key server network has, or might face in the future. Regards Stefan -- https://www.behance.net/futagoza https://keybase.io/stefan_claas
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