key question

Paul Richard Ramer free10pro at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 23:37:37 CET 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:23 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 2/25/10 9:24 AM, MFPA wrote:
> > Some people hate the idea and get *very* upset if their key does end
> > up on the servers.
> 
> What you're advocating here is "DRM on the honor system."  Don't copy
> the key, don't distribute the key, don't upload the key, don't do
> anything with the key, without the explicit permission of the key owner.
> 
> Me, I consider DRM on the honor system to be the exact same as any other
> kind of DRM -- something to be overcome and then ignored.
> 
> If someone asks me nicely, "please do not upload this key," I will
> probably say yes.  But it is a *huge* leap to go from there to "do not
> upload keys without the owners' permission."

Friends don't let friends share PGP keys. ;-)
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