Robert J. Hansen:
> It would be nice if Enigmail could keep track of the last time the
> keyring was refreshed -- or, more accurately, the last time Enigmail
> refreshed the keyring.  Then, every 30 days, Enigmail could prompt the
> user for:
> 
>       "It's been a month since your keyring has been updated.
>        Would you like to update it now?"
> 
> With options of 'Yes', 'Ask Me Later', and 'Stop Asking'.  If the user
> clicks 'Yes', it runs gpg2 --refresh.
> 
> This would potentially help out *a lot* with the problem of people
> continuing to use expired, revoked, or otherwise discarded certificates.

Refreshing a full keyring has the downside that it exposes the entire
keyring at once to the keyserver. I know GnuPG doesn't try very hard to
hide metadata, but this one expose the social graph in a quite
identifying manner as it's unlikely that two users will have the same
keys in their keyring.

These are the concerns that lead to the design of Parcimonie:
https://sources.debian.net/src/parcimonie/0.9-3/design.mdwn/

Could Enigmail reuses some of these ideas? Or warn users that it might
be a problem? Or at the very least this could be disabled when TorBirdy
is installed.

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