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Did you just invent keyservers??? WOW!!!! I wonder if next you will invent the ftp protocol or some other thing that has existed for decades.


Discoverable keyservers are novel I think.

The problem with existing keyservers is that there are several of them and you never know which one someone's public key might be living in. There may even be multiple potential keys for a single email address across the different servers. They are effectively useless for email encryption in their current form. It's a very rare email client that will even query the most popular ones looking for someone's key. In fact I don't know of a single email client that does.




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