The weak point of this model is that the PGP software
assumes that the keys accepted by keyserver.pgp.com are valid.
There is a certain safety in this assumption: To register a key,
you must have access to the email address, but anyone can
open an email address at a free provider and claim any legal
name they like, however,
1
so this doesn’t guarantee identity.
NOTEPGP automatically checks for keys on keyserver.pgp.com, but GnuPG
users must check for these keys manually (or set keyserver.pgp.com as
their default keyserver).
Searching for Keys
If your mail client doesn’t automatically fetch the public key of
OpenPGP-encrypted ...
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