Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver online

[John Clizbe]

C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote:
>> Associated with what? With my key? With the keyserver?
> The email address you used when requesting peers.  The email address
> which I will associate with the keyserver you claim to operate when you
> confirm for me that you have physical access to the private key
> corresponding to public key 0x5BB9A53D.

The email and key which you seem to place such great emphasis on, were only
suggested to be added a few months ago solely as a convenience factor for
contacting a keyserver operator. _Nothing_more_.

You seem to be placing an enormous amount of unwarranted import on them.

> 
> address@hidden:~$ grep 5BB9A53D /etc/sks/membership 
> #keyserver.pki.scientia.net 11370#ChrisMitterer<address@hidden>0x5BB9A53D
> 
>> Please tell me once you've got that, so that I can delete it.
> Sorry I failed to confirm receipt previously.  Please consider my
> initial response an indication of receipt and review of the document.
> 
> Please sign a message using the private key associated with 0x5BB9A53D. 
> I will then remove the comment character from
> keyserver.colliertech.org's /etc/sks/membership file and re-start the
> server.  Something like the following would be more than adequate ;)

There is no need to restart the server after editing the membership file.

> $ echo "
> I <your name> do hereby swear under penalty of perjury that I own and have
> exclusive access to the private key corresponding with the public key ending
> in <your pgp id> " | \
> gpg --digest-algo sha256 --clearsign

*eyeroll* OYE!!! "Penalty of Perjury"?

Had you requested such a statement from me at the beginning, I would have most
likely written you off and never bothered helping you iron out your IP config
problems.


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