keyservers

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Tue Jun 18 08:54:01 2002


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On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 21:32, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
>=20
> > BUT - most public keyservers have serious flaws:
> >  - they don't accept a key with a photoid
> >  - they corrupt a key with multiple subkeys
> >
> > So actually everybody is waiting for newer keyservers to appear
>=20
> Not really. I doubt most people want to use multiple subkeys or photoid's=
.
> My primary key is still a RSA v3 key, with no subkeys or photoid's, and I
> have one DH key for the RSA-impaired.

Ok, 'everybody' was a bit much...

But while I agree that multiple subkeys probably never will be
widespread, I feel that with no photoid support in the keyservers many
new users will have problems, as once the gpg GUIs offer this feature
people will want to use it.

cheers
-- vbi

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