Re: Public Key Look Up

Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed 12/May/2021 18:25:00 +0200 John R Levine wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2021, John C Klensin wrote:
>>>> I'm not clear why a domain's MX would be the wrong place. ..,
>> 
>> Well, if the keys were signed by entities I trusted, I wouldn't
>> be worried about what "authoritative source" means.
> 
> Indeed.  But if the keys include signatures, it doesn't matter where they come 
> from, so we're back to asking why nobody seems to use the key servers that 
> already exist.

Some people has been using those key servers.  However, they're vulnerable to 
pgp-poisoning attacks[*].


Best
Ale
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[*] https://github.com/skeeto/pgp-poisoner











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