trust paths (was: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption)

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Fri Feb 27 22:25:16 CET 2015


Am Fr 27.02.2015, 21:25:40 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 21:12 +0100, Andreas Schwier wrote:
> > So what exactly is the purpose of the keyserver then ?
> 
> Find trust paths

What could that be good for? If you do not make very strange assumptions 
that could be of any use only if you assign certification trust to 
unknown keys which would be completely crazy.


Hauke
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