[2720] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Secure Office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed May 20 09:39:43 1998
In-Reply-To: <199805170704.DAA26118@homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:35:17 -0800
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, fod@brd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer)
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: marc@cygnus.com, cryptography@c2.net
At 11:04 PM -0800 5/16/98, Adam Shostack wrote:
>| >Another point of trivia: the PGP keyservers have fewer than 200,000
>| >keys on them. This is a lot, but it's a tiny fraction (1%?) of global
>| >internet users.
>| >
>| > Marc
>
> I have upwards of a dozen keys (mostly expired). I've put
>very few on the key servers. Having just checked, none of the people
>I work with who have keys have them on the servers. I suspect its a
>"I don't know what that means, so no." sort of response to the
>keyserver question.
Also, there are a number of attacks you can prevent by not allowing your
opponent to have your public key. If you are paranoid, you might decide to
treat your public key as a "need to know" item.
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