Re: Public Key Look Up

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/12/2021 10:04 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> 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[*].

The 'nobody' terminology is apt, in terms of operational statistics. 
The number of users is statistically insignificant, especially over a 
period of decades.

"Too few to matter" would be the alternative wording.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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