key question

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 18:17:52 CET 2010


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MFPA escribió:
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> Do many people check the keyservers for a possible key when they
> contact somebody they have not emailed before?

  Well, I have done that once or twice...

...
> Use of encryption may put an individual under suspicion of illegal or
> subversive activity, or in some places may be illegal itself. Isn't
> that a good enough reason to not want a key on a public server showing
> your name and/or an email address that can be traced to you?

  Right, and in those cases, I think people using illegal encryption
tools should not rely on other people keeping the public key secret,
after all, uploading the wrong key to a keyserver can be just one click
away from uploading the right one... and people make mistakes.

  Best Regards
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