GnuPG in universities

[Florian Weimer]

Niklas <niklas.schurig@student.uni-ulm.de> writes:

> does anybody have experience with GnuPG (and email-frontends)
> used in computer-pools for example in universities (Windows and Linux) ?
> 
> I'd like to know wether 
> - there are already universities supporting PKE-infrastructure, especiallly in Germany

The University of Stuttgart has been experimenting with an
PGP-2.6.x-based PKI for some time now.

> - how problems with those shared computers and secret keys are managed

Our CA policy merely states that every user is responsible for his own
keys.  From the CA point of view, we cannot do much about this, and
the fundamental problems with multi-user systems cannot be solved
anyway, so the situation is quite hopeless.

> - there are already keyservers in universities

We run a keyserver for the keys signed by our CA; however, it is
currently more or less out of order.

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