On 2011-12-17 14:29, gn...@lists.grepular.com wrote: > The system can be easily abused, therefore it will be abused. It's just > a matter of time. How much time, depends on if/when PGP becomes more > popular. It doesn't strike me as unreasonable to want to put defences in > place before an attack begins.
Just like you shouldn't write blatantly inefficient code. But there's also a point after which we call this premature optimization. Ditto for putting up security measures for a problem that may well never become one. I would be very happy to see this become a problem in fact. It would imply that OpenPGP is popular enough to attract script kiddies & co. -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA -- nameserver 217.79.186.148 nameserver 178.63.26.172 http://opennicproject.org/ -- No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
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