Re: [openpgp] Modelling an abuse-resistant OpenPGP keyserver

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 05 April 2019 01:06 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, "openpgp@ietf.org" <openpgp@ietf.org>
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>I wanted to put forward a "simple proposal" (ha ha) about how to think about
>a keyserver (or other public keystore) that would be more resistant to this
>kind of abuse.

Put keys in the blockchain?  There's got to be something it's useful for apart
from fuelling pump-and-dumps.

Peter.