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STEED: End-to-end email encryption

STEED: End-to-end email encryption

Posted Nov 1, 2011 8:10 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: STEED: End-to-end email encryption by micah
Parent article: STEED: End-to-end email encryption

> key servers don't allow for revocation? last i checked they did.

An even if they didn't that were mainly an argument to add that capability. I believe that running a few reliable key servers will be less hassle than convincing my mail provider to fudge their DNS server to provide my gpg key.


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STEED: End-to-end email encryption

Posted Nov 2, 2011 8:29 UTC (Wed) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459) [Link]

It is not a matter of running a few keyservers. We are talking about hundreds of millions of keys. We need a reliable and scalable distributed database. DNS does just this for decades.

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