About PGP Signing a File.

[Tony Arnold]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
>> For example, my version of Seahorse talks to hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371
>> and ldap://keyserver.pgp.com but there are quite a few more.
> 
> From the FWIW department, the MIT and LDAP PGP keyservers are
> broken. They'll mangle newer version keys and/or won't broadcast any
> at all. The current rule of thumb is to stick with newer HKP protocol
> servers, and use one of the random pool redirects like...

I'm not sure where Seahorse gets these from! My gnu.conf file specifies
hkp:///subkeys.pgp.net which perhaps is a much better choice?


> Here's a link to David Ross' page that explains in a little more
> detail, even though it's somewhat dated now. I'm not aware of any
> up-to-the-minute stats on key servers. Sorry. Best thing is to keep
> an eye on the GnuPG-Users mailing list like I do. :( 

Thanks. I'm not on that list, but I probably should be!

> http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keyserv.html

I'll give it a read.

Regards,
Tony.
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