keyserver spam

Jerome Baum jerome at jeromebaum.com
Sat Dec 17 14:33:20 CET 2011


On 2011-12-17 14:23, gnupg at lists.grepular.com wrote:
> I find it strange that the keyservers don't do any sort of email
> validation before accepting key submissions and that they just allow
> anyone to upload signatures for your key without verifying if you want
> to allow them first.

What about keys without an email in the UID? What prevents me from
signing your key and distributing the signature in some other way?

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