RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-15 Thread David Honig
At 03:41 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: The HighFire project at Cryptorights http://www.cryptorights.org/research/highfire/ is planning on building a web of trust rooted in the NGOs who will be using the system. Each NGO will have a signing key. A NGO will sign the keys of the people

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-13 Thread Pat Farrell
At 11:56 AM 6/13/2003 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: At 10:27 AM 6/11/03 -0700, bear wrote: That is the theory. In practice, as long as the PGP web of trust The thing that strikes me is that the PGP web of trust idea is appropriate for very close-knit communities, where reputations matter and people

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-13 Thread Bill Frantz
At 2:35 PM -0700 6/13/03, Pat Farrell wrote: At 11:56 AM 6/13/2003 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: At 10:27 AM 6/11/03 -0700, bear wrote: That is the theory. In practice, as long as the PGP web of trust The thing that strikes me is that the PGP web of trust idea is appropriate for very close-knit

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
At 11:56 AM 6/13/2003 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: The thing that strikes me is that the PGP web of trust idea is appropriate for very close-knit communities, where reputations matter and people mostly know one another. A key signed by Carl Ellison or Jon Callas actually means something to me,

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-12 Thread David Honig
At 05:47 PM 6/11/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: To try to reflect some of David's points with a real-world situation. I was at work, with a brand new installation of PGP. I wanted to send some confidential data home so I could work with it. However I didn't have my home key at work, so I didn't

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-11 Thread Bill Frantz
To try to reflect some of David's points with a real-world situation. I was at work, with a brand new installation of PGP. I wanted to send some confidential data home so I could work with it. However I didn't have my home key at work, so I didn't have a secure way to send either the data, or

RE: Keyservers and Spam

2003-06-10 Thread David Honig
At 12:43 PM 6/10/03 -0400, Jeffrey Kay wrote: number (which I now use Call Intercept to avoid telephone solicitors). But for privacy reasons, some folks will not automatically forward their phone number. You either deny them access or require them to jump through extra hoops (redial w/ special