📅 Original date posted:2013-05-14
📝 Original message:On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, could PGP keyservers suffer from a similar 51% attack
> as the bitcoin network?
Well, no, and yes. It doesn't work like that.
If you have your own domain, you can store your key there as a TXT entry.
$ dig +short harald._pka.schil.ly. TXT
and even use it automatically:
$ gpg … --auto-key-locate pka -r email at address.domain
H
Harald Schilly [ARCHIVE] /
npub1e3…mgdms
2023-06-07 15:01:59
in reply to nevent1q…lsl9
Author Public Key
npub1e37c4mperqtl8nt6xchhmykfamsjjj2x8x3sd0wk96weuc5gn6kqpmgdmsPublished at
2023-06-07 15:01:59Event JSON
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