> Correct, but would it be really a big loss if we would loose all the > old fashioned key servers tomorrow? For me not.
I personally know Syrians and Iranians who have given me bear hugs at conferences when they hear I'm involved with GnuPG, Enigmail, and am on the periphery of SKS. A common theme with these people is they believe, on the basis of reasonable evidence, that their governments are involved in active campaigns to intercept and/or degrade communications, including by CNO means. I have been asked probably ten times in the past five years by dissidents, "Can I trust the keyservers? Is there any way to tamper with the data on them?" I have always told them the keyservers are trustworthy, and that they are designed to never delete or modify existing data. This seems to be a great relief to those dissidents. If the keyserver network were to go away tomorrow, it would definitely impact people in repressive regimes. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users