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A comment on Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal. Parent comment

Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by vidarh on Thursday August 28, 2014 @06:27AM (#8236600)
You would not be able to stop individual users from doing so, but you could potentially make it legally untenable for commercial/corporate operators.

But personally, regardless of legality, if Google implements this with the degree of disclosure of e-mail details, I'll find another operator that isn't implementing this proposal.

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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by magicalist on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:02PM (#8238346)
The whole point is ease of key exchange. Of course if you don't want any hint of your email details out in the world you shouldn't use it.
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by vidarh on Thursday August 28, 2014 @09:02PM (#8240674)
Ease of key exchange does not justify publishing what is effectively a public ledger of who I start communicating with when.
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by magicalist on Thursday August 28, 2014 @09:59PM (#8240819)
I think you're misunderstanding the gossip protocol, but, regardless, that was not the claim I was responding to, it was that the disclosure of email addresses (or a hash of them) with no way to remove them from the Key Directory is somehow beyond the pale for a public (and automated) key exchange system.
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