Re: [Ghm-discuss] How to your keys ?

[beuc]

Hi John,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 05:43:44PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:44:41AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>         so why then all these emails that say "Your signed PGP key" ?
>      
>      I have no idea.  I don't use this overly complicated scheme of
>      operation, nor do I know why people suggest it.
>      
> Apparantly some people consider it discourteous to send the public key
> of another person directly to a keyserver.  The owner of the key might
> want to keep it within a controled circulation.

I believe the goal is to check that the e-mail address the person gave
is a valid e-mail address, and owned by that person.

Cheers!
Sylvain