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Re: why pgp sucks
Perry E. Metzger originally said the following...
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> I'll also note, yet again, that unless PGP quits this bad practice of
> identifying counterparties only by a number, it is NOT going to be
> universally deployed. Counterparties need to be identified by a name
> that can be looked up in the DNS -- meaning "[email protected]" rather than
> some key ident number.
Doesn't having some kind of central record of keys go against
the principle of PGP? Unless you're just talking about having
a name attached to each key, but not exactly a DNS for key
id's... I'll admit I'm a little confused.
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