PGP Keyservers

Andrew Millar andy-mail at priorityonline.net
Tue Aug 16 20:49:09 UTC 2005


When looking, the two you reccomended didn't seem to hold your key.

However, when i looked at http://subkeys.pgp.net, it seemed to suggest i 
should use keyserver.mine.nu.

That keyserver seemed to be fairly comprehensive.

- Andy

Charles Mauch wrote:

>Greetings from Tacoma, WA, USA, the Ass End of the Galaxy, Andrew!
>On Tuesday, August 16, in the 2005th year of our Lord, you wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Out of interest, i was wondering what PGP keyservers everyone here used.
>>
>>I personally use ldap://keyserver2.pgp.net when looking for keys, and i've not 
>>been able to retrieve the key of anyone on this list.
>>
>>Is my client configured incorrectly, or am i looking in the wrong place?
>>    
>>
>
>Use keyserver.kjsl.com or subkeys.pgp.net.  Choosing a traditional pgp
>keyserver like pgp.mit.edu will end up corrupting your public keys, and
>you'll end up with duplicate self-signatures and all sorts of related fun
>if you make use of newer openpgp options like multiple user id's.
>
>I also don't use ldap for lookups, I just hkp or simply http.
>
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>

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