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Re: authenticated email

2003-06-04 04:50:02


--On onsdag, juni 04, 2003 13:02:11 +0200 Alexandru Petrescu <petrescu(_at_)nal(_dot_)motlabs(_dot_)com> wrote:

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
I thought I'd try this....

is there any particular disadvantage or centralization of power
implied in me signing this message with my PGP key?

Is there an IETF PGP keyserver somewhere?

nope. we have had a lot of PGP key signing parties at IETFs, but nothing "official". I generally use wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net when I look for keys, but there's nothing very magical about that.

Did you store the key securely on the keyserver?

Why should I? It's signed, so it's either there or not there - you can't fake it, just remove it. (And sometimes I wish the keyservers WOULD drop some keys - there's an old key of mine out there that I don't use any more....)

Which keyserver?  Which port?  The particular network I connect to is
blocking most ports, so I can't retrieve your public key.

It's attached below, too. Anything to increase the Kbytes-posting-stats :­)

On another hand, the same particular network recommends that its users
use a particular MUA, which has built-in certs of certain CAs, which
allows readers of this email to trust I am who I claim to be, "legally"
(as if I showed an ID).

If not, is there any particular reason that I shouldn't do this all
the time?

Will the government of the country you live in allow you to store
your public key on a public PGP keyserver?  (a particular government was
_not_ allowing it as of 1997, and if things have changed since then I'm
happy, but the "try and find out" way is high risk for me.)

The Norwegian government does not care, so that's not a downside for me - but of course, your mileage may vary.

            Harald

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