Re: why pgp sucks

Derek Atkins says:

The point is to have a centralized, distributed key distribution mechanism, similar in concept to the PGP Public Keyservers, but which scale much much better. The concept is similar to a DNS of PGP keys (think of the DNS model, not the DNS implementation) where you have keys distributed based upon site. For example, MIT could server MIT's keys, and CMU would server CMU's keys.

This does not go against PGP in any way. In fact, it augments PGP wonderfully. How else would we be able to have a world-wide white pages of PGP Public Keys?

Unfortunately, the current PGP practice of using only numeric key-ids in message packets makes it hard to do this -- sigh. I hope that the next version of PGP changes this. Perry