PGP 5.0: Keyservers
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Out of curiosity, what protection is there for PGP 5.x users submitting keys to the keyservers? Would it not be trivial for somebody to see what dialup SLIP link a key is coming from and tie that key to the person submitting it? That isn't a problem for personal keys, but it is a big problem for psuedonyms. Is there some kind of mechanism in place for submitting such keys via anonymous remailers? This might already have been covered by other Cypherpunks or the PGP folks. ParanoiaMonger
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <19971104042001.4745.qmail@nym.alias.net>, on 11/04/97 at 04:20 AM, lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu> said:
Out of curiosity, what protection is there for PGP 5.x users submitting keys to the keyservers? Would it not be trivial for somebody to see what dialup SLIP link a key is coming from and tie that key to the person submitting it?
That isn't a problem for personal keys, but it is a big problem for psuedonyms. Is there some kind of mechanism in place for submitting such keys via anonymous remailers?
This might already have been covered by other Cypherpunks or the PGP folks.
All the HTTP based servers also have e-mail access for submitting and retreiving keys. Submitting a key via remailer should not be a problem. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNF8g149Co1n+aLhhAQETzwP/QmKn5T78nvDhETZBKPpP6pNs9wYafYnY lVfkibjOctMRBFhI3bk2oCgwZZGTk3GFi1aOkFhr5aRgfuRSHjXV5LJHKrjUnNZU 0UhMVPXFKAEteIESSzD1qAveMXfbSb3r053GeRTQFF4eoFmLTPgo2zGDFQUSgx5d cXPcdjDEZc4= =sgYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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lcs Mixmaster Remailer
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William H. Geiger III