Blocking publication of a public key?  What exactly would be the point of
using public key encryption if you are not willing to share your public
key?


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote:

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> On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Steve wrote:
> > that is currently not possible. But even if you only want to use
> encryption locally there's no damage when someone uploads his/her key to the
> key servers. You could of course block the IP of the key servers and
> exchange key locally. then the keys won't be uploaded, but I'm not sure why
> you want to prevent this form happening.
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> I'm always stumped when people to go to extreme lengths to keep their
> public keys from being public…  Is it because they're worried that the
> public key being exposed will lead to someone brute-forcing their private
> key eventually?
>
>                                -Bill
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