Stefan Claas wrote: > Dumps can be used for a variety of tasks. I remember rjh once saying that > people asked him if they can trust the key servers. Does this trust mean: > Can a key been removed or faked, or a dump been used for analyzing social > graphs of non-trained dissidents, activists etc. who, not knowing better > before, signed each others key publicity. (A WWW key server interface in > its current form may reveal such info too, but IHMO not so quickly.)
And one more point. Publicity available dumps made it possible to bootstrap key server in non-so-democratic countries, where people are probably not allowed to use strong encryption, like PGP ... Let alone that when you travel for holidays in such a country one may have then also 'little' problems. Regards Stefan -- box: 4a64758de9e8ceded2c481ee526440687fe2f3a828e3a813f87753ad30847b56 GPG: C93E252DFB3B4DB7EAEB846AD8D464B35E12AB77 (avail. on Hagrid, WKD) _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel
