SKS PGP Keyservers Nodecount Dropping

[Stefan Claas]

I would like to add the following. People who are involved in secure
communication on the Internet today and who are new to this topic, do
not learn that security, such as privacy or anonymity etc. a) costs
money and b) should be used in conjunction with offline devices.

Surely licensees of tools like FinFisher or Pegasus could confirm
that cryptography on online devices like smart phones or computers
might be quite useless.

John Young wrote:
 
> Has it not been established that all key servers are compromised, 
> that's _all_ not just some accused to divert attention from all. The 
> compromise is not new just not well understood due to avid promotion 
> of crypto as necessary for public and commercial privacy, infosec, 
> comsec. CryptoAG is a noteworthy example of the deception but its 
> confirmation too is a diversion from more deeply hidden subterfuges.
> 
> Then Tor, I2P, CJDNS, Secure Drop, Signal, et al, each eagerly 
> boosted than gradually falling in credibility and trustworthiness to 
> be succeeded by new borns.
> 
> It might be worth pondering Snowden's quite limited "gift to the 
> public" as another active measure to bamboozle in the WikiLeaks 
> manner, indeed media-born leaks as a principal tool to meddle with 
> information and data, not that any digital method can compete with 
> the internet itself for that role.
> 
> The recent post about crypto's failure to serve the underprivileged, 
> citing cypherpunks as an example, is indicative of where a next step 
> for injecting compromised sec tools is headed, following bitcoin's 
> amazing rise as top tracker of finance under pretense of untraceability.
> 
> "Cybersecurity" is booming as education, as jobs, as investments, as 
> must have protection and aggression initiatives. Apt that Covid shot 
> that CyberPonzi delirium with a sneak attack on the backdoor implanters.
> 
> At 07:27 AM 9/2/2020, you wrote:
> >grarpamp wrote:
> >
> > > https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
> > > https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
> > >
> > > Number of servers in pool slowly dropping, might need volunteers at
> > > some point, including more nodes on Tor, I2P, CJDNS...
> >
> >The majority of GnuPG users no longer use SKS key servers, due to the
> >fact of possible attacks on their pub keys. It seems SKS key servers
> >are nowadays only used for censorship resistant communications.
> >
> >Todays popular key servers are:
> >
> >keys.openpgp.org or keys.mailvelope.com, besides Werner Koch's WKD.
> >
> >Regards
> >Stefan
> 
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