Re: About User-ID's

[Len Sassaman <rabbi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Jon Callas wrote:

> I don't know about irrelevant -- but I don't know what do do about them. If
> user ids didn't have email addresses on them (which they don't have to), it
> would be hard to find the right key when you want to encrypt mail to
> someone.

People have talked about the possibility of spammers harvesting names from
the keyservers for quite some time now. Out of curiousity, last May I
created a key with a unique email address and submitted the keyserver
network as bait. It's been over a year now, and I have yet to receive a
piece of spam to that address.

So, not to say that this won't happen, but I haven't seen any evidence
that is does currently.


Len


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