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New Global Directory of OpenPGP Keys

Gemini writes "The PGP company just announced a new type of keyserver for all your OpenPGP keys. This server verifies (via mailback verification, like mailing lists) that the email address on the key actually reaches someone. Dead keys age off the server, and you can even remove keys if you forget the passphrase. In a classy move, they've included support for those parts of the OpenPGP standard that PGP doesn't use, but GnuPG does."

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  1. Re:Widespread Crypto Revolution? by sunya · · Score: 3, Funny

    So take random garbage and encrypt it. best of both worlds :)

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  2. Re:Widespread Crypto Revolution? by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ab, V qba'g guvax pelcgbtencul jvyy rire pngpu ba. :)

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  3. Re:Widespread Crypto Revolution? by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, then they'll make sending random data illegal as well.

    Then how will anyone post?

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  4. Re:out the window by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps Homeland Security thought the PGP keyserver was a threat and had an article about it posted to Slashdot. If so, it apparently worked. :)

    Now where is my tinfoil hat?

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  5. who needs keys... by hey · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... just use fake PGP

  6. NSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought the NSA already had a global repository of PGP keys? OOPS, posting to the wrong computer.