Re[2]: Revoked keys on keyservers

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, DeBug wrote:

>>> A while ago there was some brief discussion on the keyserver manager
>>> list about the idea of aging keys off of the keyservers.  Basically,
>>> any key that didn't get refreshed after a few years would just get
>>> dropped from the server.
>DE> That's actually a rather nice idea ... shame it never got up and
>DE> running.
>I do not think this is a good idea - imagine someone has generated
>exactly the same key someone was using in the past, now they both
>have the same private key. So the list of revoked keys is needed
>to determine your new key was not used before.

This discussion usually refers to non-revoked keys.

Tony
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