Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:05:49 +0100,
MFPA wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2015 at 1:09:54 PM, in
> <mid:87lhdzmagd.wl-neal at walfield.org>, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> 
> 
> > Personally, I think c is the killer in this plan:
> > people aren't going to bother to upload it (assuming
> > they even get that far)!
> 
> They have gone to the effort of sending it to the validation server
> to obtain the validation signature. It is up to them whether they
> publish it to a server, publicise it in some other way, send
> it to their contacts directly, or just do nothing.

I suspect that >95% of users won't bother.  This would defeat the
entire scheme, which requires widespread buy in to be successful.

Neal