Hi John, On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 05:43:44PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:44:41AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > so why then all these emails that say "Your signed PGP key" ? > > I have no idea. I don't use this overly complicated scheme of > operation, nor do I know why people suggest it. > > Apparantly some people consider it discourteous to send the public key > of another person directly to a keyserver. The owner of the key might > want to keep it within a controled circulation.
I believe the goal is to check that the e-mail address the person gave is a valid e-mail address, and owned by that person. Cheers! Sylvain
