From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 06:45:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A3D106564A for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from kaga.kitchenlab.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f04:55c::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED798FC1C for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from morimoto.local ([IPv6:2001:470:1f05:888:21b:63ff:fecd:f07c]) (authenticated bits=0) by kaga.kitchenlab.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n1L6jbae019533 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:45:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <499FA30B.2000206@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:45:31 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeremy C. Reed" References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5ba052c3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig41ABEF5C83B5F2006B6A53E8" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9018/Fri Feb 20 11:07:43 2009 on kaga.kitchenlab.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PGP chain of trust tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:45:38 -0000 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--