On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:34, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > the public key. He / she is not forced to provide any identity via other > web sites etc. Doing this is a method they have implemented as sort
I know, but keybase.io's goal is (or was, back when I tested it) to use those connections to somehow prove an identity. It is a neat idea for the facebook generation. Privacy is something different. > Why do i prefer keybase.io over the old key server system? Because > i am in control of my public key there, so that nobody can do funny They are in control of your key - not you. You can ask them to do something without key but in the end the owners of this service decide what they allow you to do and what key they want to publish or stop publishing. Or to shutdown their service. Compare that to the keyservers: They have been around for 25 years and you can still find all keys ever uploaded there (I am not sure whether PGP 2.3 keys are still supported, though). There is no single entity controlling this network. > Understood, but what speaks against a (syncing) public key server > system like the old pgp.com key server was, compared to the regular As Robert already noted: The pgp.com keyserver was a single database under the control of one entity which did for technical reasons not syncing with the keyserver network. IIRC, in the early days Randy sometimes uploaded keys to the keyserver network but never imported keys. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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