Why hashed User IDs is not the solution to User ID enumeration (was: Re: Creating a key bearing no user ID)

brian m. carlson sandals at crustytoothpaste.net
Sat Jan 28 18:38:47 CET 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:52:56PM -0600, John Clizbe wrote:
> Having keyservers support no-modify requires that they first support crypto.
> That's a really big step.
> 
> To my knowledge, no one is working on such an initiative in SKS or any other
> keyserver.

I'm working on an OpenPGP library which may sprout a keyserver daemon
supporting this, but there's no guarantee that that will happen anytime
soon, if ever.  Don't hold your breath.

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