Garbled data in keyservers

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  6 Dec 2018 14:05, stefan.claas at posteo.de said:

> Understood. Please check this example, a key with with plenty of data,
> which only needs to be extracted.
>
> https://pgp.circl.lu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x73253A1F090C53B6

Surely you can put arbitrary data into into a user-id. 

> That's right, but my thought is / was someone can (ab)use key servers
> as data storage / retrieval system and then only provides the key id

As it has been commeted, there are easier ways to do that.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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