[8159] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (L. Sassaman)
Sun Dec 3 11:48:17 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:51:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
To: Stefan Kelm <kelm@secorvo.de>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011290914.KAA30802@rom.antech.de>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Stefan Kelm wrote:
> > > Not to mention anything about PGP keyservers, or the utter and
> > > complete absence of anybody doing point-source PGP signing.
> >
> > Yeah, the whole system looks none too scaleable.
>
> It certainly isn't. Please keep in mind, however, that the pgp.net
> keyserver system is in no way related to NAI and/or pgp.com. Given
> that all the keyservers are being operated by volunteers in their
> spare time the system runs fairly well.
Well, certserver.pgp.com (the same machine as pgpkeys.mit.edu) is run by
NAI. But other than that, yes: the key server network is run by
volunteers.
It would be nice to see someone doing commercial reliable key server
services.
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L. Sassaman
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