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Re: [openpgp] Modelling an abuse-resistant OpenPGP keyserver

2019-04-12 15:13:30
Thanks a lot, great work!

I fixed some minor spelling, grammar and formatting - please excuse the amount of pull requests.

One question:

Clients of an updates-only keystore cannot possibly use the keystore for certificate discovery, because there are no user IDs to match.

I wonder about the definition of "certificate discovery" here. Even without UIDs, these keystores could be used for the *retrieval* of specific certificates whose fingerprint (or key ID) is known. This can be the case for signatures (over mails, software or documents) or keylists like in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mccain-keylist

Maybe we would want to add "certificate retrieval" at least to the next sentence, which begins:

However, they can use it for certificate update

I'm sure we can come up with a good wording - if my ovservation makes sense in the first place.

Happy to see this evolving.

--
ilf

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