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PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis
Drew Streib writes: "In the spirit of some work begun by Neal McBurnett a few years ago, there is a June report of keys from global keyservers. This report covers about 1.5 million keys, from a 1.7GB public binary keyring, focusing on keys that are nearest the center of the web of trust. Using a GnuPG key? This will tell you where you stand in the overall rankings, as well as signatures to look for. Not using one? Maybe you should be." This would be worth reading for the explanation of the analysis alone.
As soon as someone integrates it into Mozilla! Mozilla does everything I need in a mailer right now except GPG/PGP support:
Good IMAP support (most stable I've seen)
SIMAP and SSMTP support
Graphical (hey, if I'm useing X, may as well use it)
Cross platform (can use it under Windows or Linux)
..while I'm at it, roaming profile support in mozilla would be nice too.
Could anyone explain what the point of Public Key Servers is?
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I wonder why this was mod'd as 'Funny'. It's a pretty good question.
It's not like 'centralizing' security responsibility as in 'Passport' services. It's a part of key-management/key-distribution in public-key encription system.
In layman's term, having a centralized public keys repository could help maintaining higher security comparing with requesting public key from an individual by email.
Say you'd like to send a confidential message to A, and you start by requesting A his public key; if an intruder is listening to your email, and learn from your initial public-key request mail that you are going to have a secure transfer, then the intruder might be able to impersonate A and send you a fake public-key.
That's more issues on it, just gave you a very simple exmaple....anyway I wish it helps.
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