On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:30:54PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
At the end of 2004, my annual key expiration event was allowed to pass without genning a new key: nobody had sent me encrypted mail in ages [years], and being the prick that I am, I started a little game instead.
So nobody sends you encrypted mail.
I left the expired key on the .sig, and started the clock to see how long it would take for someone to notice. January 1, 2005 through February 25, 2008: about 3 years.
So nobody sends you encrypted mail.
I had fully expected a CP to be the lucky contestent, but alas, Cpunks
I don't know where cypherpunks are, they're for sure no longer on this list.
dont bother with key management anymore - heck, we dont even bother with distributed email anymore AFAIK. Alas, the alert correspondent was
Hey, you only now notice anonymous remailers have been dead for some half decade?
a commercial software vendor who makes little widgets. I had made an inquiry about a mass purchase, and they noticed the [now profoundly] expired key, and decided to Do The Right Thing and encrypt. Only they couldn't, as the key was deader than dead: it was "Tim May Someone Needs Killing Dead". And, even better, they were nice enough to point it out, assuming I was unaware. I am BCC'ing this post to said vendor: you really did do The Right Thing, and I applaud you for it! That you are the only one to notice is, I hope, a sign of the attention to detail I will find in your widgets.
So, CP Distributed Lists are dead. The list, singular is tottering, and has been for years, and now, I think I can proclaim Encryption Everywhere
O'Rly? Received: from proton.jfet.org (proton.jfet.org [69.60.117.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "sp2734", Issuer "sp2734" (not verified)) by v64.ativel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372521364084
as Dead On Arrival. Even for so called crypto people. Tis a sad day in Eurasia folks.
FWIW, I still get encrypted mail, about one/month, or so. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE