-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello cypherpunks@toad.com and Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com> ...
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 ...
Probably a good idea (that, and/or have a mailing list with key revocations). How about it, keys.pgp.net people?
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 is very easy, at least in Unix: pgp -kvv, grep, cut, for. In DOS, you can do pgp -kvv and find, then edlin to change every "sig" into "call getkey", call the resulting (batch) file, which will call GETKEY.BAT for every missing key. I hope. However, I don't see much of a point to it: these are people you don't even know the keys of; how are you going to know whether they are trustworthy? (The Web-o-Trust can only tell you who they are, not whether to trust them.) ...
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 ...
No, you wouldn't. You would tend to have the keys that sign a lot of other keys, which would include both SLED (Four-11) and a lot of careless people that sign every key in sight. How about, instead: 3) A way to retrieve all the keys signed by a given entity. This would have the effect that when you come to trust Alice, you can simply go and get all the keys she signed. I believe the present keyservers don't allow that... (Or else I don't know how to ask for it.) Hope that makes sense... Adiau - Jiri - -- If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>. On sweeney, I may delete without reading! PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two) PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMPD/cSxV6mvvBgf5AQEAoQP+MB78qOcXqqXp8XKh8y/UCD7QW1SDN9WX XMEYQqQijHE1JCwYBlvhtRdqunPJODGBOhN+EVNG8OBrSzQZGkWeRxa+ThhQ+E4L dwB5WYRzjzDWTNxA1UW1W994Z+FzCUE0OouOiOLOCrstnlnJ6rEY0+NCzieQkx0L Bf5pVdsEUJg= =dkEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----