Re[4]: Revoked keys on keyservers

[DeBug]

>>>> any key that didn't get refreshed after a few years would just get
>>>> dropped from the server.
>>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.
AEG> This discussion usually refers to non-revoked keys.
Yes indeed, if too many keys are sampled from the pool of 2^N
then it becomes easy to crack by randomly generating new keys and
looking whether you've generated a key already in use :)

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