-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lares Moreau wrote: > Is there a recommended(read Endorsed) Keyserver?
There is NO officially recommended or endorsed key server. > I'm looking at the documentation we have here at gentoo.org and it > recommends pgp.mit.edu. It has been suggested that this server is old > and broken. Is this the case? pgp.mit.edu works fine for older keys. It runs the PGP Key Server (pks). PKS does not handle V4 key features well. Notable examples of mangled features are multiple subkeys, a revoked subkey (tag 0x28), duplicate keyids, direct key signatures (tag 0x1F), revocation signatures on userids (tag 0x30), or photo IDs. There is also no development or maintenance being done on the pks platform. One exception to the pks servers is keyserver.kjsl.com, which has been patched to not mangle keys; however, it drops photo IDs. The one PKS server at kjsl.com, the LDAP keyservers (only one is still on the 'net and it's unsynchronized, ldap://keyserver-legacy.pgp.com), and the SKS servers handle v4 keys correctly. The current platform of choice is known as the Synchronizing Key Server (SKS). It is written to fully comply with OpenPGP specifications. subkeys.pgp.net is a round-robin DNS lookup of four servers. Three SKS servers and the server at keyserver.kjsl.com. The address some of my correspondents and myself and refer to most users is x-hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de. It's a round-robin alias that is updated daily with the operational servers in SKS' universe. For my own use, I use minsky.surfnet.nl. It's easy for me to remember (Yaron Minsky wrote SKS and its Gossip protocol.) It's also short to type. - -- John P. Clizbe Inet: JPClizbe(a)comcast DOT nyet Golden Bear Networks PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10 "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss, "Oh the Places You'll Go" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3-cvs-3909-2005-10-12 (MingW32) Comment: When cryptography is outlawed, b25seSBvdXRsYXdzIHdpbGwgdXNlIG Comment: Be part of the £33t ECHELON -- Use Strong Encryption. Comment: It's YOUR right - for the time being. Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQ08Tsr4fmBEYuzc6AQJ9gAP/VoBrVdi/76JIAzug/hkfIPSGVVyH8XZx EQdc6J3TZsM0ayorw4pJ3WDcjh9FQADvLqXl+Ew1mhQSMN8KXNFTlHTAMufn0bB6 HMpLAcXy9X/pcEMC969fs3pBe+Kir/wMvYVpw4DKYcqRc8FvMVt/y9hklqo6U+tt m1r5pWHUgmmIPwMFAUNPE7YdBKxKYI0qEBECfPEAoIlabmHAk0bu7o8hryfD9Afu P7n3AKCLtM0qM/5FUB2e6oiRE3h7gOSElg== =9SWo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
