wks for sign-only keys

Erich Eckner gnupg at eckner.net
Fri Jan 11 11:20:00 CET 2019


On 11.01.19 11:08, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Freitag 11 Januar 2019 09:46:05 schrieb Erich Eckner:
>> To avoid any confusions, I created the key without capability
>> of encryption (no emails should be sent to that address - besides of
>> course wks emails).
> 
> An interessting question then is: What do you do, if you an email is send to 
> this address? :) Even if you throw them away, being able to encrypt is 
> important, because users may have send you some interesting information.
> If you don't want email send at all, why offering an email address?

Email will be discarded. I was simply offering an email address, because
I thought it was mandatory (but now I see, that it is not).

> 
>> If it would add much complexity to allow for uploading sign-only keys, I
>> guess, I'm fine with replacing the key with one that can also encrypt
> 
> Given my assumptions above this maybe the better solution for you anyway. ;)

Yes, either that or a key without an email address and manual upload to
the wkd.

regards,
Erich



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