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RE: PGP kerserver infrastructure

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Mon Jul 03 10:08:05 2000

> Eric and Randy's excellent contributions notwithstanding, I think the
> problem is even simpler from a user's perspective:
> 4) "Given my grandson's email address, send this email to him privately."
> Even if the PGP key format soon expands to include attributes of many
> types, it's clear that all human interaction is based on
> correspondence of some kind

nope.  i, and many others, use pgp to encrypt files on disk should one's
system be cracked, a laptop be lost, ...

> SRVs are the way to go, if they enable the rapid adoption and
> scaling of (1) and (2) and make (4) easier for Grandma.

to use srv you have to know the domain.  you have just recursed and made no
progress.

randy