On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:29 PM, MFPA wrote: > On Tuesday 1 March 2011 at 8:56:56 PM, in > <mid:201103012156.57...@thufir.ingo-kloecker.de>, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > >> Hmm. Why do the keyservers need to support it at all? >> IMO the clients that want to upload a key should check >> for this flag and warn the user if a key has this flag. > > I think the warning would be a good idea because it should serve to > reduce accidental uploading of keys (except by those who view such > warnings as "noise" and just click through without really reading > them). > > Since the keyserver-no-modify flag is set by default in GnuPG and this > warning would be triggered for a large percentage of keys, why bother > checking for the flag? "Do you really want to publish this key to a > keyserver?" could be asked every time the user told the client to > upload any key, perhaps also displaying some info about the key and > the server.
For that matter, you could just emit the warning for any key that you don't also have the secret part for. That is, keys that have a higher chance of not being yours. I would worry about the warning being invisible after a while though. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users