[29662] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PGP kerserver infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jul 3 10:07:18 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Dave Del Torto <ddt@openpgp.net>
Cc: pgp-keyserver-folk@flame.org,
"Eric M. Carroll" <eric.carroll@acm.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:03:52 -0700
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> Eric and Randy's excellent contributions notwithstanding, I think the
> problem is even simpler from a user's perspective:
> 4) "Given my grandson's email address, send this email to him privately."
> Even if the PGP key format soon expands to include attributes of many
> types, it's clear that all human interaction is based on
> correspondence of some kind
nope. i, and many others, use pgp to encrypt files on disk should one's
system be cracked, a laptop be lost, ...
> SRVs are the way to go, if they enable the rapid adoption and
> scaling of (1) and (2) and make (4) easier for Grandma.
to use srv you have to know the domain. you have just recursed and made no
progress.
randy
