Launching a new keyserver on keys.openpgp.org!

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Tue Jul 9 14:44:16 CEST 2019


On 09/07/2019 13:31, Dirk Gottschalk via Gnupg-devel wrote:
> The other pint is, the hkp protocol should be expanded to some kind of
> authentication, so only the owner can upload and update a key.

No need to change the protocol. Just store unvalidated uploads in a
holding area pending confirmation via the email(s) in the user ID packet(s).

Same way we sign people up to this mailing list, in fact. :-)

-- 
Andrew Gallagher

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