Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net> thus posted:
It seems that PGP keyservers have been attacked of late for alleged copyright violations. Nice tactic if you are PKP I guess. Has anyone considered the use of anonymous remailers to run a keyserver? A double blind keyserver might solve the operator a good deal of heat.
(I thought it was a patent problem rather... but that's not the point) Let me know if I'm missing some essential point here, but why are people insisting on running key servers in the US, the only country where there may be a patent claim? I doubt mailers would care one way or the other if you used foreign keyservers. I do understand how some of us would make it their Duty to actively protect their Konstitooshunol Right to run PGP key servers in their Own Country, free from interference from evil commercial and governmental entities :-) (no, really, I understand) but what other reason could there be for that? In this case, to the user, it should not matter where the keyserver if physically located. I'm not really up to speed as to which key servers are running where, but the current versions of PGP being developped outside of the US, there must be a few keyservers here and there. Keys crossing the border cannot be the problem, they are all over Netnews and all over mailing lists too. So, I do not understand why this could be a "nice tactic if you are PKP". Surely they cannot be spending much ressources on this when the easy counter move is to use foreign key servers. I do not understand what reason there is to start (or even develop) keyservers in the US, apart from annoying PKP. Pierre Uszynski pierre@shell.portal.com