Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:45:31 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PGP chain of trust tools Message-ID: <499FA30B.2000206@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0902200906060.16790@tx.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0902200906060.16790@tx.reedmedia.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig41ABEF5C83B5F2006B6A53E8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am looking for a way to count the "degrees of separation" or shortest= =20 > path between public PGP keys. >=20 > Any tools or libraries I should look at? Not sure how directly applicable this is, but it sounds like you want something like this: http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ > I am researching to see if it would be useful for allowing mail (defaul= t=20 > deny stance / guilty-until-proven-innocent since most mail is unwanted)= if=20 > the sender's signature is within 2 or 3 hops from recipient. Or scoring= =20 > the mail up based on the lowest hops. >=20 > Anyone know of anything like this? Any research? How far can this scale= ? > > (I now see a spamassassin plugin but doesn't score based on hops away.)= Interesting idea. For me personally, this probably would not work because the vast majority of people I correspond with don't PGP-sign their email (or, for that matter, even have PGP keys). Bruce. --------------enig41ABEF5C83B5F2006B6A53E8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmfoxEACgkQ2MoxcVugUsMAkQCg2pmlb9pNYSpcdf9nXY6YLUFP SyYAnR1JBichkFa0sEsKn1wCSmnc1Tp7 =X5Fe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig41ABEF5C83B5F2006B6A53E8--
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