Re: [Sks-devel] The pool is shrinking

[Stefan Claas]

Stefan Claas wrote:

> Dumps can be used for a variety of tasks. I remember rjh once saying that
> people asked him if they can trust the key servers. Does this trust mean:
> Can a key been removed or faked, or a dump been used for analyzing social
> graphs of non-trained dissidents, activists etc. who, not knowing better
> before, signed each others key publicity. (A WWW key server interface in
> its current form may reveal such info too, but IHMO not so quickly.)

And one more point. Publicity available dumps made it possible to bootstrap
key server in non-so-democratic countries, where people are probably not
allowed to use strong encryption, like PGP ... Let alone that when you travel
for holidays in such a country one may have then also 'little' problems.

Regards
Stefan

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