17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Following suggestions on the net, the wasabi.io.com keyserver has been upgraded to allow arbitrary comments to be attached to public keys in the archive. This is primarily for the benefit of people who lost their master keyring and had not prepared a revocation certificate in advance. For an example of how this might be used, try finger 0x445051@wasabi.io.com finger 0xbdfe4d@wasabi.io.com As you see, the key is still returned. It is up to you to read the attached comments and to decide not to use the key. This solution to the lost key problem was chosen in order to prevent a denial of service attack on the keyservers. Anyone who wishes their key to be revoked in this way, please post publicly to alt.security.pgp The Mgt.