Comment in cabot/README

Erich Schubert erich@debian.org
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:36:19 +0200


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The comment at the end of the README is flawed IMHO.

I don't upload every single signed UID i recieve.
When someone signes multiple UIDs i usually recieve the signatures in a
batch. Then i have multiple mails in the folder. I certainly will read
them all first, thus import all my signed UIDs, then i will switch to
a terminal and upload my keys (my email client can easily decrypt, and
easily pipe the key to gpg --import, but uploading is something that is
easier to do outside the mail client!). That makes 7 decrypts and 1
upload in the example.

IMHO cabot should require the replies to be *signed*, not only
decrypted. That would increase security (and allow the verification of
sign-only keys.)

It would be nice if cabot would only send the own signatures to the
recipient to keep the mail size low. My key with all its signatures
is > 50k by now...
When writing such code, please do always develop so that a signer may
have multiple keys he uses for signing the uids.

Gruss,
Erich Schubert
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