explain nrsign & lsign?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jan 29 17:20:20 CET 2007


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:22, dshaw at jabberwocky.com said:

> etc.  Nowadays, many spammers aren't using their own bandwidth or CPU.
> So why *not* hit the keyservers?  It costs them essentially nothing.

OTOH, addresses taken from the addressbook as available on the host
(== zombie Windows PC) are much more effective than harvesting the web
or kyeservers. These local addresses are more certain to actually be
used and even better: the recipient of the spam knows the sender.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner





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