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<span class="brand">keys.openpgp.org</span>.
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</p>
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<h3 id="third-party-signatures"><a href="#third-party-signatures">
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Do you distribute "third party signatures"?</a></h3>
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<p>
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Short answer: No.
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<p>
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A "third party signature" is a signature on a key
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that was made by some other key.
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Most commonly,
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those are the signatures produced when "signing someone's key",
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which are the basis for
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the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust" target="_blank">Web of Trust</a>".
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For a number of reasons,
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those signatures are not currently distributed
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via <span class="brand">keys.openpgp.org</span>.
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<p>
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The killer reason is <strong>spam</strong>.
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Third party signatures allow attaching arbitrary data to anyone's key,
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and nothing stops a malicious user from
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attaching so many megabytes of bloat to a key
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that it becomes practically unusable.
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Even worse,
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they could attach offensive or illegal content.
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</p>
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<p>
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There are ideas to resolve this issue.
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For example, signatures could be distributed with the signer,
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rather than the signee.
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Alternatively, we could require
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cross-signing by the signee before distribution
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to support a
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<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/caff" target="_blank">caff-style</a>
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workflow.
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If there is enough interest,
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we are open to working with other OpenPGP projects
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on a solution.
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</p>
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<h3 id="revoked-uids"><a href="#revoked-uids">Why are revoked identities not
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distributed as such?</a></h3>
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