Sorry for hijacking the thread but without the context I'm not sure that
my question would have been understandable.
On 8/7/2022 7:59 PM, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users wrote:
On 7 Aug 2022, at 17:28, Jay Sulzberger via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
wrote:
Andrew, do the sks keyservers work today?
I was able to find the key by going to
https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/
and putting
EC6C2905F0F93C0373946CA10642427A5FF780BE
into the search box.
Do you mean SKS the software (i.e. github.com/sks-keyserver) or SKS the
protocol/network? The answer in both cases is “yes”, but for different values
of “yes”. 🤓
What doesn’t work any more is the sks-keyservers.net pool, which had become a
nightmare to manage. This has been taken by many to mean that the SKS network
itself is down, but this is absolutely not the case.
sks-keyserver still works, but is IMO not suitable for use in production unless
you are an expert willing to roll your own load balancing pool and recompile
the code to update blacklists (there are still a few such brave souls left).
This may change in the future — the software is maintained but hasn’t had a
significant feature bump in some time.
The SKS network also still works, and depending on your choice of metric is
probably more stable today than it has ever been. The reasons are twofold: many
operators have migrated from sks-keyserver to hockeypuck, and most of the rest
have shut down. This means that although there are fewer keyservers now than
five years ago, the ones that do exist (including keyserver.ubuntu.com) are
generally much more reliable.
Information about the SKS network can be found at https://spider.pgpkeys.eu
Why did you published the key to the sks key servers?
I guess my question is about the reasoning behind using sks key server
instead of WKD or Hagrid.
--
John Doe
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