mailto with pgp fingerprint

Schlacta, Christ aarcane at aarcane.org
Fri Jul 25 15:01:28 CEST 2014


On Jul 25, 2014 5:30 AM, "MFPA" <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net>
wrote:
>
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> Hi
>
>
> On Wednesday 23 July 2014 at 9:02:23 PM, in
> <mid:109D2E39-C8DC-4CBC-A404-A5BD1B1309AD at gpgtools.org>, steve wrote:
>
>
> > Wouldn’t it be a nice solution, if key server software
> > had a mechanism for users to verify their UserID by
> > sending a mail to the mail address in question.
>
> If I recall correctly, PGP's keyserver "PGP Global Directory" sends an
> email to each email address in the uids when a key is submitted, and
> only lists those uids whose email address replies. It re-sends these
> verification emails every six months, and deletes keys if there is no
> reply. It also allows anybody with access to your email address to
> delete your key and upload a different one, according to Wikipedia
> [0].

I just recently published a number of keys, and never noticed any such
emails.

>
> [0] <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_%28cryptographic%29#Problems_with_keyservers
>
>
> - --
> Best regards
>
> MFPA                    mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net
>
> Yellow snow is not lemon flavoured
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