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Re: Why are mail servers not also key servers?

2017-04-20 23:52:56
On 21 April 2017 at 12:11, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:

If a recipient is cooperative, and sends you back a message signed
with the same key to which you encrypted the message, that tells you
he got it, but that's not a very interesting case.

It's also abuse of the cryptographic primitives, I hope that this
isn't really how it works and you are eliding certain key details.