On 15 Jan 2018 at 21:23, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:00:34 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > > How long do we have now those old fashioned key servers > > > > SKS came out in 2003. It largely replaced PKS, which was widely > > considered old and broken. SKS was Yaron Minsky's Ph.D thesis, > > wherein he developed some really cutting-edge math to make key sync > > fast and reliable. > > > > "Old-fashioned" is not the phrase I'd use to describe something > > considerably newer than GnuPG. > > > > >, and was > > > there ever been made attempts by the software maintainers to > > > modernize the code > > > > It's from 2003. It doesn't need modernization. > > No? I for one would like to be sure that i am the only person who can > upload my public key to a key server directory. >
could this be implemented in a way that the _upload_ (not the spreading between keyservers) requires signing? (unless it is a revocation certificate)? > Example: Bob does some nasty things with Alice her key which she > don't like, or better said hate. Since there is no key removal > currently implemented how should she deal with that? Or it may be desirable/necessary not to disclose connections between specific persons, User IDs etc., thus to remove critical signatures. Regards Matthias -- OpenPGP: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc Fingerprint: 6563 057D E6B8 9105 1CE4 18D0 4056 1F54 8B59 40EF _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users