#KeyServers

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Xeniax</a> Totally nerdsniped :D I'd love to be a part of the study.I don't think that <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/KeyServers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KeyServers</a> are dead. I think they evolved into Verifying Key Servers (VKS), like the one run by a few folks from the OpenPGP ecosystem at <a href="https://keys.openpgp.org/about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://keys.openpgp.org/about</a> . More generally, I believe that <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PGP</a> / <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/GPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPG</a> / <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OpenPGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenPGP</a> retains important use-cases where accountability is prioritized, as contrasted with ecosystems (like <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Matrix</a>, <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/SignalMessenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SignalMessenger</a>) where deniability (and Perfect Forward Secrecy generally) is prioritized. Further, PGP can still serve to bootstrap those other ecosystems by way of signature notations (see the <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/KeyOxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KeyOxide</a> project).Ultimately, the needs of asynchronous and synchronous cryptographic systems are, at certain design points, mutually exclusive (in my amateur estimation, anyway). I don't think that implies that email encryption is somehow a dead-end or pointless. Email merely, by virtue of being an asynchronous protocol, cannot meaningfully offer PFS (or can it? Some smart people over at crypto.stackexchange.com seem to think there might be papers floating around that can get at it: <a href="https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9268/is-asynchronous-perfect-forward-secrecy-possible" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9268/is-asynchronous-perfect-forward-secrecy-possible</a>).To me, the killer feature of PGP is actually not encryption per se. It's certification, signatures, and authentication/authorization. I'm more concerned with "so-and-so definitely said/attested to this" than "i need to keep what so-and-so said strictly private/confidential forever and ever." What smaller countries like Croatia have done with <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PKI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PKI</a> leaves me green with envy.

xeniax ⏚<a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#survey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/keyservers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#keyservers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/pgp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pgp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#encryption</a> PART 3 OF THE KEYSERVER STUDY(see Part 1 here: <a href="https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax/114273355035626553" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax/114273355035626553</a>)❓QUESTION 3: WHY HAVE YOU STOPPED USING KEYSERVERS

xeniax ⏚<a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#survey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/keyservers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#keyservers</a> 🔒🔑 PART 2 of the Keyservers Study (see part 1 here: <a href="https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax/114273355035626553" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax/114273355035626553</a>)❓QUESTION 2: HOW DO YOU MAINLY USE KEYSERVERS?✨✨ if you have used them in the past, you can also answer here!

xeniax ⏚Dear Fedi friends. I want to make a short <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#survey</a> to understand who actively uses <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/keyservers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#keyservers</a> today. I am interested in understanding the meaning and the value that people attribute to keyservers nowadays, and the shift in perceptions of email <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#encryption</a> 🔑🔒📊 I will be making several polls (follow the thread!)💌 I also would be happy if some of you agree to talk with me more in depth over an e2ee encrypted channel of your choice, no need to make a call, just messages are enough👾 Feel free to share the polls and reach out in comments if you can and want to be part of this study.👩🏽‍🎓 If this ever leads to any kind of publication, I will be following the standard ethical protocol adopted in the academic research community, which is to 1. ask informed consent for quoting; 2. quoting anonymously by default, unless the person wants to be named and 3. right to withdraw from the study even after responding to the questionsQUESTION 1: DO YOU USE KEYSERVERS?

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