hashed user IDs redux [was: Re: Creating a key bearing no user ID]

[John Clizbe]

MFPA wrote:
> On Saturday 28 January 2012 at 1:37:17 PM, John Clizbe wrote:
> 
>> To achieve the two goals, you only need to put each in its own UID. Just
>> remember once they locate the matching key, they will have all the
>> information in all the UIDs.
> 
> Which is precisely what I don't want. I'm looking for a means to place 
> searchable information in UIDs in an obscured format. The aim is that 
> locating the matching key does not reveal any extra information - the user
> would know that one of the UIDs matched, but the other UIDs would remain as
> useless noise.

Which is why I also wrote in that message:

John Clizbe wrote:
> Sorry, but there is no way to only return a single UID matching the search
> term. Things were never designed that way. (So there's really no reason not
> to put all three in a single ID.)

To repeat: OpenPGP and the keyserver network were NEVER designed to operate in
the manner you wish. I doubt they ever will operate in that manner. You cannot
blind a UID from other UIDs on a certificate. The day keyservers selectively
return certificate information is the day the keyservers no longer are trusted.

Like Rob, I'm done. There is no more to explain. Adios. Sayonara. Goodbye.

I'm going back to work on getting SKS to run on Windows.

-John


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