PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

Henrik O A Barkman h-bar at skenbe.net
Wed Sep 7 17:22:22 CEST 2005


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>>To my knowledge, the PGP GD doesn't sync with anyone.  It would be
>>interesting to know how/where these signatures are leaking into the
>>keyserver net.
> 
> Probably some PGP users who are "automagically" synchronising their
> entire keyrings with multiple keyservers, leaking keys that their owners
> would rather not have on the keyservers in the process :(

That would have to be very zealous users, since I once found PGP GD signatures
on one of my keys when I checked it on the SKS network. At the time, that key
was known only by me, the SKS servers and the PGP GD.

What users would download keys at random?


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