> Do you know that *you* and "dkg" are in my "public" keyring? There is > a reason they call it a "public" keyring. It contains "public" keys > that are available to everyone.
The certificates themselves are; the specific collection of certificates may, in fact, be quite sensitive. A great example of this comes from an American magazine called _The Progressive_. In 1979 they had a journalist named Howard Morland who wanted to write the definitive work on how nuclear bombs worked. He went through a huge amount of publicly available material and came up with an article that was apparently so accurate the United States government sued to prevent its publication, lest nuclear weapon secrets fall into the hands of foreign nation-states. (Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and _The Progressive_ was allowed to publish Morland's article.) Anyway -- yes, just because a piece of data is public doesn't mean a specific compilation of public data is public. Sometimes it's very sensitive indeed! In *my specific case*, there's nothing secret about my public keyring. However, other people may have vastly different needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_Inc. _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
