On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:46, 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net said: > Unless at least some of the major email providers were to provide a > means for these DNS entries to be added, any DNS-based approach has > very limited potential.
Right, but is the only solid way of doing it. The provider already have the infrastructure to maintain the mail account and thus the costs of adding a new data field a marginal. Of course one could setup a service to do this for example by appending foo.gnupg.net to the mail address before the lookup. However this introduces a lot of costs (user help desk), annoyance (the user need to register with that service), and centralization. > A person cannot usually dictate which mail provider is used by the > people with whom they exchange messages. Iff enough people are interested in confidential mail communication competition will force all providers to add this. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users