Re: PGP evolving, improving

[Adam Back <aba@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Grigg <iang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So there are problems with the old PGP system.  But, and it's an
> important but, these (key) problems only effect keyservers in general. 
> As most people don't use key servers, this is not a tremendous problem,
> and certainly not justification for dropping the old formats.  It is of
> course more important to PGP Inc as their products use key servers
> automatically.

That's an easy one to solve: just use a different value for the
automated keyserver lookup.  eg keyID||fingerprint.

For manual pgp2.x users of the same keyservers (rather than software
automated pgp5.x lookups) just provide an additional CGI form for
fingerprint, and a short text explaining the problem, and how to avoid
it.  Display the fingerprint by default also might be a good idea.

Adam