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Re: [Sks-devel] [Autocrypt] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR
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holger krekel |
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Re: [Sks-devel] [Autocrypt] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR |
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Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:20:37 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 18:57 +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 17:57 +0100, Volker Birk wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 05:27:14PM +0100, Andy Mueller-Maguhn wrote:
> > > I do roughly recal that such a verification process has been discussed for
> > > the SKS keyservers at one of the pgp-summit before, but i wonder what
> > > happened to the idea. However, if it that is “good enough” to be compliant
> > > with the GDPR i can´t say, but this sounds like a good idea in any case.
> >
> > I'm not of the opinion that key servers are a good idea at all. It's
> > a pity that people still follow this wrong idea.
>
> I happen to be similarly skeptical of key servers and don't want
> to spend much effort with helping to evolve the concept.
> I might be wrong, though, and there are good uses that solve real
> security issues for people. When i say "real security issues"
> i mean those who otherwise are oppressed and imprisoned for real,
> not in some potentiality. It's about real outcomes for people
> and not some security ideal.
>
> Some folks certainly think key servers are useful and i respect them.
> And also, who knows, i might be missing something. I admit that
> so far the arguments pro key servers (eg revocation) have
> not made me lean more towards going for it.
Just to be clear, i am refering to key server usage for e2e email.
For supporting Debian and similar other ecosystems key servers
have served quite well as far as i understand. And then, reconciling
key servers with the GDPR for public signing and verification
infrastructure seems like a good idea (including revocation i guess).
holger
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- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Andy Mueller-Maguhn, 2018/11/06
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Volker Birk, 2018/11/06
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, holger krekel, 2018/11/06
- Re: [Sks-devel] [Autocrypt] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR,
holger krekel <=
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Werner Koch, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Yegor Timoshenko, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Yegor Timoshenko, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Andrew Gallagher, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Wiktor Kwapisiewicz, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [Autocrypt] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Tobias Mueller, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [Autocrypt] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Wiktor Kwapisiewicz, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Werner Koch, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Yegor Timoshenko, 2018/11/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] [openpgp-email] Keyservers and GDPR, Andrew Gallagher, 2018/11/07