[messaging] User key lookup and the Web PKI analogy

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 09:45:07 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:

> Bear in mind another reason the web uses standalone certs - even with 100%
> fast reliable key servers, doing lookups out of band would leak private
> browsing data to the CA's/keyservers
>

This data is already leaked via DNS, FWIW...

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Tony Arcieri
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