German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 03/01/2015 04:35 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> On 01.03.15 15:58, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>> On 03/01/2015 03:41 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>> On 27.02.15 20:56, Werner Koch wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:26, patrick at enigmail.net said:
> 


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> 
>> In general I believe this to be an insufficient form of 
>> identification that really doesn't provide much of anything
>> useful, but at least the PGP keyserver does it reasonably sane in
>> its methodology by creating a signature from their CA on the
>> key. Whether you put any merit to having such a CA signature or
>> not is left up to the user (excluding for now the "fun" related
>> to the spammy number of signatures from it)
> 
> Yes, I know. The re-confirmation every few months together with 
> re-signing the keys is among the things I dislike about 
> keyserver.pgp.com. But in general, I think that keyservers need to
> go in that direction if we want to enable easy use of OpenPGP in
> email (which requires in some way or another to download missing
> keys automatically).

You wouldn't need the keyservers to be involved in this at all. Anyone
could set up such a mail verification CA outside of the keyserver network.

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