u wrote:
BTW, why don't people put their public keys on key servers like pgp.mit.edu? The keys would be propagated to other servers anyway; the ones in pgp.net. I believe that would make our lives a bit easier; one definition of keyserver in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, we could retrieve others' public keys.
why the people dont publish the public keys? hm, i think thats the same reason why some people open mails from unknown senders with an unknown attachment. the word for this is ignorance.
but the mail has a true background which is not restricted only to this mailing list. also in the "real" private world, where many friends of me only send the keys by mail -- of course if requested only! not published to key servers :((
cu