Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-03 Thread Juergen M. Bruckner via Gnupg-users
Hello Martin, so I think these people want to make it as easy as possible for others to get the public key. I also make my keys available on my website and via WKD and DNS. From my point of view it is also a kind of security for people who want to write to me that they have my real key - and

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-03 Thread Martin
Hello Vincent, Ok - that is clear now. I never had the idea to get a "whole list" from a key server but I didn't understand why people let access their key only on their own website. Martin Thursday, February 2, 2023, 9:45:53 PM, you wrote: >> Could you please explain this, I don't

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-02 Thread Vincent Breitmoser via Gnupg-users
Hi Martin, Could you please explain this, I don't understand really. So there are public and no public keys on the this key-server? Who decides that a key is public or non-public? Who or how can I request a non-public key? Sorry, that wasn't as clear as it could have been. There are no

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-02 Thread Martin
Hello Vincent, Thursday, February 2, 2023, 12:41:48 PM, you wrote: > For traditional (sks-style) keyservers, it is true that the list of all > certificates > and email addresses is public, and must be by design. For keys.openpgp.org > specifically, this full list is not public and never will be

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-02 Thread Vincent Breitmoser via Gnupg-users
Hey list, Keyserver records are public and spammers can scan those Just quickly noting, since keys.openpgp.org was mentioned at the beginning of the thread: For traditional (sks-style) keyservers, it is true that the list of all certificates and email addresses is public, and must be by

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 16:51, Martin said: > It just seemed like a contradiction to me if a key for security > reasons should be downloaded from a website with an insufficient > certificate ;-) That is not really a matter. X.509 certificates as well as PGP keys are self-contained. All OpenPGP

RE: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Ming Kuang via Gnupg-users
On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 5:33 PM, Martin wrote: > Hello > > Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) > > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Alex, Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 1:01:21 PM, you wrote: > There's not much you can do in those situations. There's not > really much in the way of an advantage compared to downloading from a > keyserver when searching by the key ID. It

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Juergen M. Bruckner via Gnupg-users
Hello, Apart from the use of keyserver, it is relatively easy and highly recommended to use WKD (Web Key Directory) for PGP-Keys. Another alternative is DNS OPENPGPKEY Record. regards Juergen Am 01.02.23 um 10:32 schrieb Martin: Hello Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) More and

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello Martin, Il 01 febbraio 2023 alle 10:32 Martin ha scritto: > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a link where the key could > be downloaded.

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Alex
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 13:01:21 +0100 Alex wrote: > There's not much you can do in those situations. There's not > really much in the way of an advantage compared to downloading from a > keyserver when searching by the key ID. Correction: It can help if there are collisions, software should not

Re: Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Alex
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:32:41 +0100 Martin wrote: > Hello > > Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) > > More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't > store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - > sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a

Public keys stored on different server

2023-02-01 Thread Martin
Hello Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-) More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) - sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a link where the key could be downloaded. Sometimes this link has