email hashes in PGP keys as protection against spam
Hauke Laging
mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Mon Oct 5 04:08:59 CEST 2009
Hello,
I would like to propose a small change to gpg (which I cannot do myself as
I am not a programmer) which should solve the spammers harvest key servers
problem.
The description is on my web site:
http://www.hauke-laging.de/ideen/gpg-hash/index.en.html
Google told me that several people are aware of the problem but that it's
importance is assessed differently. One mentioned the idea I had, too, but
thought it was not possible with openpgp. So I hope that my suggestion is
new (I haven't found anything about that in the mailing list archive).
I hope that somebody with the necessary capabilities finds this interesting
and easy enough to give it a try. :-)
Of course, I am interested in comments in order to improve the concept if
necessary.
Hauke
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