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- From: povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk (Povl H. Pedersen)
- Subject: Re: Create group for dist. of pub. keys?
- Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:27:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.002755.19260@uts.uni-c.dk>
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- I do not think it is a good idea. There is no reason to have that huge a
- key database. Also, it is possible to post fraud keys. It is not worth
- it. But having a newscroup to post compromised keys is OK.
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- Normally you always can exchange keys in advance when you send mail,
- and lots of people have started to put it in their .plan file, so just
- giving them the finger will help :-)
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- Povl H. Pedersen - Macintosh specialist. Knows some DOS and UNIX too.
- pope@imv.aau.dk - povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk
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