GPG/PGP-signatures
I think that it is great that people GPG/PGP-sign their posts (and I intend to start doing so myself, as soon as I get proper connectivity at home, and thus don't have to send all e-mail via a remote server where I don't want to store my private key), but when the public keys are unavailable, hard to obtain, or invalid for one reason or another, the signing is useless.
I've monitored the use of signatures on the list the last few months, and have come up with this list of people whose signatures I've been unable to find (neither available on wwwkeys.pgp.net nor has a x-pgp or x-gpg header saying where to download the key):
Justin Carlson C1A06FBE
Florent Chabaud 95C81C3C
Thomas Duffy 38F3C1BC
David Fries CB1EE8F0
Roger Gammans 88DE0B3E
Austin Gonyou 59853282
Josh Litherland 893D9228
Brandon Low 1F012DC6
John L. Males 99ED3565
Brendan W. McAdams 82306710
Solomon Peachy 2DBBE7D0
Joe Radinger F957E8F3
Udo A. Steinberg 233B9D29
Gianni Tedesco 8646BE7D
Martin Waitz DFE80FB2
Derek James Witt 972FE938
Wiktor Wodecki A1559FE7
Pete de Zwart 984AF710
I've bcc:d all of the above.
For those who who possibly don't know how to upload their public key to a public server, here's how:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys <keyid>
Regards: David Weinehall (0xdc47ca16)
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I think that it is great that people GPG/PGP-sign their posts (and I intend to start doing so myself, as soon as I get proper connectivity at home, and thus don't have to send all e-mail via a remote server where I don't want to store my private key), but when the public keys are unavailable, hard to obtain, or invalid for one reason or another, the signing is useless.
I've monitored the use of signatures on the list the last few months, and have come up with this list of people whose signatures I've been unable to find (neither available on wwwkeys.pgp.net nor has a x-pgp or x-gpg header saying where to download the key):
Justin Carlson C1A06FBE
Florent Chabaud 95C81C3C
Thomas Duffy 38F3C1BC
David Fries CB1EE8F0
Roger Gammans 88DE0B3E
Austin Gonyou 59853282
Josh Litherland 893D9228
Brandon Low 1F012DC6
John L. Males 99ED3565
Brendan W. McAdams 82306710
Solomon Peachy 2DBBE7D0
Joe Radinger F957E8F3
Udo A. Steinberg 233B9D29
Gianni Tedesco 8646BE7D
Martin Waitz DFE80FB2
Derek James Witt 972FE938
Wiktor Wodecki A1559FE7
Pete de Zwart 984AF710
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I've bcc:d all of the above.
For those who who possibly don't know how to upload their public key to a public server, here's how:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys <keyid>
As a followup to my own post, I found the public keys for the following persons on search.keyserver.net (thanks to Roger Gammans for the hint!);
Brandon Low
Solomon Peachy
Pete de Zwart
Gianno Tedesco (seems to have a broken mail-client; the signatures on his posts are BAD, at least according to mutt/gnupg v1.0.7) Roger Gammans
Finally a recommendation:
add
x-gpg-fingerprint: <fingerprint>
x-gpg-key: <url to your key or a keyserver>
to your mail-headers.
Regards: David Weinehall
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