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Re: [Sks-devel] 0xd5920e937cc1e39b shows signatures with 0xca57ad7c cont


From: John Marshall
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] 0xd5920e937cc1e39b shows signatures with 0xca57ad7c continuing?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:17:46 +1000
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On 27/05/2012 22:39, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> On May 27, 2012, at 6:15 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>>
>>      "We never, never, never lose certificates."
> 
> And what is being discussed is filtering an expired signature, not
> a public key, for one specific robo-signer.
> 
> Even if the filtering was solely limited to
>       an "opt-in" user requested hkp:// extension narrowly limited to just 
> 0xca57ad7c
>       expired signatures
> there starts to be a benefit to GPG users who otherwise are "cleaning"
> imported signatures manually.

Users cleaning imported signatures *manually*?  GnuPG users, at least,
can simply add the import-clean import-option to their gpg.conf.

What warrant do we have for applying any filtering at the servers at
all? If the "problem" is one robo-signer, wouldn't it make sense to talk
to its minders?

-- 
John Marshall

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