[Sks-devel] stripping GD sigs (was: Re: clean sigs)

[Johan Wevers]

Alphax wrote:

>Carrying out a full cleaning of keys stored on keyservers would
>seriously damage the WoT.

Too bad. However, if you just strip the GD signature off the damage won't
be too large.

>Removing duplicated signatures however would probably have little impact,
>assuming you are removing only the newest ones

Don't you mean keeping the newst ones?

>I have friends who currently don't want to use PGP because they fear that
>their keys will be uploaded to a keyserver, and then they will be spammed
>forever more.

They don't HAVE to add their email address to their key. I've seen several
keys with only a name in it. After all, pgp/gpg is also usable without
email. You can also use it to distribute encrypted files by carrying them
on a floppy/CD/memory stick/whatever.

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