Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-16 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tad Marko wrote: > Right, which is the reason for the continued need to let people know > your key signature via a trusted means. But, if someone was wanting to > hassle you by creating scads of bogus keys on keyservers, it still > makes it that muc

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-16 Thread Tad Marko
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 06:09:27PM +0100, Nicholas Cole wrote: > > --- Tad Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An email verification step? > > > The problem is, that IF the email infrastructure was > secure enough to be trusted, there would be no need > for pgp/gpg/smime at all. An email verif

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-16 Thread Nicholas Cole
--- Tad Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can't. That's like asking how you can stop > other people from > > printing out badges that say "I am Tad Marko" and > pinning them to their > > shirts. > > I'm not asking for that. I want them to not say that > a given key goes > to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-15 Thread Ivan Boldyrev
On 9262 day of my life Tad Marko wrote: >> You can't. That's like asking how you can stop other people from >> printing out badges that say "I am Tad Marko" and pinning them to their >> shirts. > > I'm not asking for that. I want them to not say that a given key goes > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is n

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-14 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Tad Marko wrote: > > GPG and PGP don't care about names -- they only care about public keys. > > If you want someone to be able to send a message to the right person, > > you need to make sure they're encrypting it with the right public key. > > > > You d

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-14 Thread Tad Marko
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:39:00PM -0700, Eric wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:26 -0500, Tad Marko wrote: > > If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and > > email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get > > rid of it or somehow flag my own key in su

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread Eric
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:26 -0500, Tad Marko wrote: > If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and > email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get > rid of it or somehow flag my own key in such a way that it is clear > which is the real one? You can't.

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Tad Marko wrote: > If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and > email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get > rid of it or somehow flag my own key in such a way that it is clear > which is the real one? If

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:12:11PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > or somehow flag my own key in such a way that it is clear > > which is the real one? > > Any change you make to your key could be mirrored by whoever created the > other > key. Use the fingerprint, that's what it is for. Signat

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Thursday 13 October 2005 7:26 pm, Tad Marko wrote: > If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and > email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get > rid of it You can't. You need to rely on the fingerprint - that is the only unique identifier for an

Re: Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread Lares Moreau
Key Fingerprint in Signature? (look Down) On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:26 -0500, Tad Marko wrote: > If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and > email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get > rid of it or somehow flag my own key in such a way that it is

Bogus Key on Keyservers

2005-10-13 Thread Tad Marko
If someone creates a key that LOOKS like I created it (my name and email address) and uploads it to the keyservers, how can I either get rid of it or somehow flag my own key in such a way that it is clear which is the real one? Thanks, Tad ___ Gnupg-use