Its role as a decentralized, tamper resistant key storage solution is still vital, and I would love it if we had the development going on to address the stability issues, but thats simply not the case at this point in time and until the actual integrity of the data the SKS network serves is compromised there is no need for its death.. yes there are alternatives, but those wont force enforcement of your precious GDPR, I can host all the same keys any way I want and ignore all your requests for removal just the same so your argument attacking SKS specifically is moot.
> Also do you think its good Mr Hunt that data can be uploaded onto these servers such as peoples personal information without consent? This has happened to a lot of people. And yet no one is interested in addressing this!
I've proposed solutions to simply add more sanity/validation checks to make sure keys are actual valid keys and limiting the overall size of keys to prevent abuse, but overall I'm not terribly concerned.. there's a billion places to make information public on the internet that is entirely out of reach of your local authorities, SKS is rather ineffective means of making information public since practically nobody is looking at the dataset as a whole and are only querying information directly, and almost always automated.. You are basically Gaslighting at this point.
> And are you against the GDPR?
Correct, the GDPR would be ruled unconstitutional in a heartbeat if someone tried to implement it here.
> Do you even know what the GDPR covers?
Yes, quite well.. I unfortunately work with many forms of Digital Compliance in my industry.
> what has Australia got to do with this?
Just another example of the road to hell is paved with good intentions.. Its a slippery slope you guys are already sliding down.. I can only think of one operator that was forced to shut down for being liable for data others posted publicly, and that was an Australian operator.. long before the GDPR was drafted.. and nothing was accomplished, the data they tried to take out of the public sphere still exists.. again SKS worked as designed, the government was unable to stop the distribution of that data.. and its still accessible, even within Australia.
> and where are you from Mr Hunt? America?
Yes, Colorado to be precise if you need to figure out what court to waste your time with.
> There's plenty why you claim none im not sure, maybe we should test this theory of yours?
Go for it, I am completely willing to face any government and the resulting consequences to protect the integrity and availability of public cryptography, if my government were to ever insist on compromising it again in the future I would make it my mission to distribute the tools and spread awareness despite any legal ramifications or any moral perspective, yeah I might be assisting terrorists, child abusers, and other boogiemen; but thats the price of cryptographically secure communications. The EU can bring it on for all I care, this is a hill I'm fully prepared to die on, and have been for a while.. I advocated for and distributed the tools 30 years ago when strong crypto was illegal to export from the United States, and eventually we won that battle of attrition.
-R