-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 3/14/2016 15:38, Doug Barton wrote:
[..snip..] In one version the receiving user would create a truncated version of their key, using only the UID that is related to that e-mail address. The sending user would retrieve that key, and the mail software would rely on it to encrypt the mail to the receiving user. There is also some discussion in regards to how or whether the software doing the DNS lookup would, or would not, also utilize the sending user's key ring, but let's keep it simple for now. In another version the receiving user would place the full fingerprint of their key in the DNS, and the sending user's software would use that fingerprint to retrieve the key and compare that retrieved key to the user's existing WOT, then inform the user of the results. Of these alternatives, which do you see as most useful, and why? Or, do you imagine a different app [..snip..] There are other people that are more qualified to answer this, but having been a sysadmin since mail route maps were the rule and NS was a hosts.txt downloaded from your upstream connection... I think there is a system in place that works pretty well, keys are not 'siloed' in one place but are distributed to every keyserver for the public to see, its the sks openpgp keyservers. At last count, there are 4,215,893 keys that occupy approximately 7.7Gb of space. https://sks-keyservers.net/ /john -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIVAwUBVuc6d+PfSlFQACbmAQhLLw/9FUhsVbQv6hBICJUiNOvW9D7uh4scZwpV RfQKCX0ieLfaMjvP9oaVr5tMX0pdVTJwLaCZIJu0wR09mb0WRDjsajXLZpLUP7sP SozQwxI8TeHrsRNowKqklhmMgqnCc8vWA9XBjNz4anOcBgM2N+lYNJrhCPJPmsTU m+JuVnvxNSHy8/SYSbUb1o3KXneL7SPJbKkB7hcPMAEFjTlA0WW7T97r3CkkUi4V LcMiMOI2l2vBSAmhBukV5AxXU2UNR5UuInOjuw3bT8cO0wGPr7g8aT9qhnpmlJHe 5KPBYxOOgff8riE2xcqgh6+9OzbZWA6Bwt8TRplTChBDienU0QIsGjuJB/QBsbGB HQIgPW1MT3zg28V1pixaz0lKbCw6WkdUDeV0iKzpaAqY1ZOwGiYuZ2SLlqUSJg+9 naUvdP+pvd+1T4ZHq3DIeXZhTcd6rlPozlFOiEZdjNxuA3RTcbo6xfkJgIbW+ZEv OrA5FLiPTDy3ozh1hI7h9xbmTegiGXlKllTpfbPhmv6XxvUa0NAoRVcU/iIzGifZ MW/3EikeSlCTPh00cLNMRiUYIDxQLY0dAZtdLgdfEXxgAjfPkN6B5hEHKXeY8uQd T7cfEEX8pJt5u8pEFVrIqbnKeFHnnmKUKzqPgOukioH0LctVBfvna60PqKZ39iZt MdvfEle5VYE= =zWDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
