SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

[Stefan Claas]

Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> > Can someone please explain to me why the GnuPG flag for key servers
> > --no-modify is in GnuPG and why the authors of key server software
> > did not implemented this feature?
> 
> It's pretty unreasonable to think a piece of software from 2003, meant
> as a drop-in replacement for software written in 1993, would implement a
> feature that first appeared in GnuPG around 2013.[1]

> [1] That "around 2013" is a guess: I don't know off the top of my head
> when that was first added to GnuPG.

Thanks for the info.

Regards
Stefan