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Re: Secure Office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Wed May 20 13:06:06 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <v03110729b1880d88d8af@[207.94.249.48]>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Bill Frantz wrote:
> > I have upwards of a dozen keys (mostly expired). I've put
> >very few on the key servers.
>
> Also, there are a number of attacks you can prevent by not allowing your
> opponent to have your public key.
Namely?
> If you are paranoid, you might decide to treat your public key as a
> "need to know" item.
And what's to keep Friendly Joe User from submitting your pubkey
*for* you? Many people I've known submit their entire keyrings to
keyservers. And most keyservers I know don't honor remove requests
(though they will honor key revocation certificates).
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)) )) .- "There's always time for a good cup of coffee" -. >===<--.
C|~~|C|~~| [> Jay D. Dyson - jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov <] | = |-'
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