[Sks-devel] Dump

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> > The issue is one off vs. wholesale, and the initial inquiry 
> > from the .edu poster demonstrates that it is not generally 
> > known how to get all 2.9 million without effort beyond that 
> > of a casual attacker

> The initial inquiry from the .edu poster demonstrates only 
> that the original poster didn't know.  Generalizing from a 
> single data point is not wise.

Trimming away and ignoring clearly stated questions to reframe 
away hard parts is a common 'debate society tactic' -- engage 
or be ignored

Just to be clear I asked:

> > Please explain how adding to that pool of bad actors by 
> > providing ready access to a frequently updated corpus is a 
> > win -- If I were a black-hat, I'd be building a new product 
> > already to leverage those wholesale updates

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> > Facilitating anonymous wholesale transfers increases the 
> > size of the population able to readily have a corpus to 
> > spam at, with a set of assumedly valid email addresses and 
> > matching ID information

> (b) people who upload their certificates to servers 
> willingly accept the risk of their email address being 
> public in exchange for the benefit of having their 
> certificates being easily findable -- and who are you to say 
> their wishes should be ignored?

'There you go again' Clearly a false generalization. From the 
archive:

Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:21:48 +0200
From: "Martetschlaeger, Matthias" <Matthias.Martetschlaeger@ elided>
To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Subject: [Sks-devel] Delete key from keyserver

I thought it was an easy question but after several hours of 
searching though the archive and multiple webpages, my last 
hope is to get some help from this mailing list.

I simply want to delete a key from my sks-keyserver. It is a 
standalone key server with not synchronization.

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-- Russ herrold