hashed user IDs [was: Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?]

MFPA expires2011 at ymail.com
Tue Mar 15 23:54:28 CET 2011


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Hi


On Monday 14 March 2011 at 1:06:26 AM, in
<mid:4D7D6A12.308 at adversary.org>, Ben McGinnes wrote:


> Anyway, out of curiosity, did you ever receive spam by
> that address and prove it had been harvested from the
> keyservers?  I still think harvesting addresses from
> the keyservers is too much effort for spammers, who
> mostly generate the target addresses, but it would be
> nice to finally answer that question.


No mail received at all on that address so far. That key has only been
up just over a year. Up until now, if I received any mail on that
address, the address could only have been harvested from a keyserver
(or randomly matched). Going forward, if I receive any mail on that
address it was probably harvested from the mailing list archive.


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Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2011 at ymail.com

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