Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:21:24PM -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > > Would be difficult to do in SKS. You need to be able to verify > > signatures (so cleaning doesn't remove the wrong signature), and right > > now SKS doesn't verify signatures. > > The problem isn't widesprea

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Kurt Fitzner
David Shaw wrote: > Would be difficult to do in SKS. You need to be able to verify > signatures (so cleaning doesn't remove the wrong signature), and right > now SKS doesn't verify signatures. The problem isn't widespread in that other keyservers are doing this sort of thing. A simple explicit

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:47:12PM +0930, Alphax wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:36:37PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: > > > >>Kurt Fitzner wrote: > >> > > >>gpg --edit-key clean > >> > >>And setting the clean-sigs and clean-uids options on import-options, > >>export-option

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Henrik O A Barkman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>To my knowledge, the PGP GD doesn't sync with anyone. It would be >>interesting to know how/where these signatures are leaking into the >>keyserver net. > > Probably some PGP users who are "automagically" synchronising their > entire keyrings with

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:36:37PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: > >>Kurt Fitzner wrote: >> >>gpg --edit-key clean >> >>And setting the clean-sigs and clean-uids options on import-options, >>export-options, and keyserver-options are our only defense until then. >> >>Like you, I r

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-06 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:36:37PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: > Kurt Fitzner wrote: > > This isn't GnuPG-related really, but recently downloaded my own public > > key from a keyserver and found on it about a billion of those silly PGP > > global directory signatures on it. Either someone has been d

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-06 Thread John Clizbe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Fitzner wrote: > This isn't GnuPG-related really, but recently downloaded my own public > key from a keyserver and found on it about a billion of those silly PGP > global directory signatures on it. Either someone has been downloading > my key fr

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-06 Thread Alphax
Kurt Fitzner wrote: > This isn't GnuPG-related really, but recently downloaded my own public > key from a keyserver and found on it about a billion of those silly PGP > global directory signatures on it. Either someone has been downloading > my key from PGP a whole bunch and then submitting it to

PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-06 Thread Kurt Fitzner
This isn't GnuPG-related really, but recently downloaded my own public key from a keyserver and found on it about a billion of those silly PGP global directory signatures on it. Either someone has been downloading my key from PGP a whole bunch and then submitting it to keyservers, or the mainstrea