On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:45, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > developed *more than twenty years ago* it was decided to support > arbitrary numbers of third-party signatures. GnuPG faithfully
At least OpenPGP has this: 5.2.3.17. Key Server Preferences (N octets of flags) This is a list of one-bit flags that indicate preferences that the key holder has about how the key is handled on a key server. All undefined flags MUST be zero. First octet: 0x80 = No-modify the key holder requests that this key only be modified or updated by the key holder or an administrator of the key server. GnuPG has always set this flag in anticipation that the keyservers will eventually come up with an authenticated upload method. As we all know the keyserver developers didn't considered that as a priority thing and thus we are at the state we are know. At the first and only keyserver conference in 2000 this topic had been on the agenda. Due to the burst of the dotcom bubble we never got together again and most thought that SKS was the way to go. Recall that it solved the problem with OpenPGP (HKP supported only 1 primary plus one subkey) and the performance problem. Since December 2013 it was pretty clear that the WoT and the keyservers will have scaling problems. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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