[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#519333: gnupg: Please include support for encrypted keyserver queries [PATCH]

[Micah Anderson]

* Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> [2009-03-20 14:59-0400]:
> * Micah Anderson:
> 
> > There is a move towards providing keyserver queries over an encrypted
> > transport for the purposes of stopping the leakage of key query
> > information that could be used for transactional surveillance
> > purposes.
> 
> I have nothing against encrypting queries, but you should also keep in
> mind that you have no reason whatsoever to trust key server operators.

Unless I am the operator, which as I noted in my original bug report I
am for a particular keyserver that I use.

This doesn't stop people from setting their preferred keyserver option
on their key of course...

micah
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