-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I am posting these ideas here before I annoy the people who will probibly implement them just to see if they have much merit... (If this is incoherent it is because of the late night posting, but I want to get it done while the thoughts are still there...) Maybe some of this will occur after PGP 3.0 is released. (That is, if the universe has not cooled down into a small lump of coal before then...) 1) Something I would like to see on the keyservers for PGP is a way of retreving all of the key revokations since x date without having to get all of the keys since that date. I hate having to check each key every so often to see if it is revoked. It would make it alot easier to avoid using compromised or old unused keys. 2) I would like to see a program like private Idaho have the ability to send mail to the key server and grab all of the "unknown signator" keys. This would have the interesting effect of building a more complete keyring, while using the "web of trust" to weed out alot of the bogus keys that tend to crop up on the key servers. After n number of itenerations you would have more of the "important keys" and the ones that have little or no signage would be left to grab when needed. This would avoid the need to grab the entire key database. (In fact, it would make it desirable NOT to...) More later when I am not so tired... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMO5PTOQCP3v30CeZAQET8wf/WI8o18pAol3HcN8j+EZyM7aIkPRFg/EQ IYU+J8c5UrXrHDyUY+lZI11Ip2CgXfL/9ER6+vJ/xKPRfNOYnzOe+53FIOKbhJ0U VPGCJYi7tbIpqBB+SHJe555fijEeGAORMvGqCVosb+KKsZQvQP5SHGK3zsy9rBP+ ojkM3AyJs5uyia4pAjV1Zz3DfxEgMPvBPtqXObN32FVbAq7hGmscDKNHEJ7ifO7H xQiMWyzPJgWdUttdoi9ko7kFYLzze4472hEGNV9DbFZMlpVn6Eex9Hhz/wq20j4i mgfyjU3GF+6+OY8KgkXU79FYKkZYqa019uCuPk50cgRdUZsI1BLyHA== =ImCD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Governments are potholes on the Information Superhighway." - Not TCMay