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   Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins   
   Re: won't be signing every message   
   06 Jan 20 18:14:11   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 5e136b8e   
   REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e124d2e   
   Hi August,   
      
   On 2020-01-05 22:55:14, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>>> According to the info at https://sks-keyservers.net/status/   
    AA>>> Max keys: 5964828   
    AA>>> That's really not a whole lot in the internet collective.   
      
    WvV>> I wouldn't want to import them all to my keyring file!   
      
    AA> I was just pointing out that globally, there is a relatively small   
    AA> number of people posting their keys.   
      
   I think almost 6 million isn't a small number. Almost 1 in every 1000 earth   
   human has one. ;)   
      
   On the other hand. Almost every one with a key has more than 1. (Like Tommy's   
   18 ;))   
      
    WvV>> That requires some human employer to check this, and would make   
    WvV>> the company responsible in case a human mistake was made. They   
    WvV>> want that to be an external risk, not theirs...   
      
    AA> Maybe true re external risk. But if we are just talking about a   
    AA> signature for a release-date acknowledgement, all "they" have to do is   
    AA> pull my public key to verify that the pgp-signed message with "I agree"   
    AA> was indeed penned by me.   
      
    AA> Some aspects of business-2-business are ripe for pgp.   
      
   You don't have to convince me. ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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