[Cryptography] Google proposes a Web of Trust replacement to solve the key distribution problem.
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Aug 29 02:33:27 EDT 2014
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Crash and burn: the existing public key servers for PGP have already
> received EU-based privacy takedown notices for keys, after someone
> protested their public key being publicly listed, together with their
> name.
Let me see if I got that straight. Someone objected to their public key
being, err, public?
I had a boss like that once. Normally a sensible chap, he objected to
public key crypto making the public key, well, public. I tried to explain
that you want as many people as possible to know your public key, but I
don't think I got through.
-- Dave
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