2 Q's

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Wed Aug 17 15:27:18 CEST 2016


On 17/08/16 14:21, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Concerning key servers, unless in very specific cases, I think keys
>> should be on big and commonly used keyservers which synchronize among
>> themselves. Otherwise new signatures, IDs, and revocations will not
>> get propagated when people refresh their keyring.
> 
> You're assuming people refresh their keyrings.  Although that's a
> recommended practice, it appears to be the opinion of the minority.

That sounds like an argument for marking downloaded local copies of
public keys stale after a certain period, similarly to DNS TTL...

A

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