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>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Hilts "Keyservers"
>>>>> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:21:21 +0000

Chris> Could someone please tell me of a gnupg keyserver? I'd like
Chris> to submit my key and look up other keys, but don't know
Chris> where I can do this.

Have you visited <http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/> lately?

Is it true that keyservers influenced by NAI seem happy grab keys from
public servers like those cooperating with pgp.net but are unwilling
to share their keys with the likes of pgp.net? Is it also true that
recent PGP software has been distributed to put keys only to the NAI
influenced keyservers by default?

The above conjecture seems to be consistent with my limited
observations. It is however only a conjecture.

So, to repeat the original question, where is _the most effective_
place to put public keys?

jam

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"John A. Martin" <jam@jamux.com> writes:

> So, to repeat the original question, where is _the most effective_
> place to put public keys?

pgp.net

I use wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net as it seems to be up all the time which is
not true for the de.pgp.net ones.


--
Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

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On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Chris Hilts wrote:

Hi,

> Could someone please tell me of a gnupg keyserver? I'd like to submit my
> key and look up other keys, but don't know where I can do this.

You can use the PGP keyservers. Of course, them work very well with
OpenPGP keys. Anywhere on [1] it should be a list of PGP keyservers.

You can submit a key by email (with the subject "add") or with the
GnuPG options '--keyserver' and '--send-key'.
You can get a key by sending a mail to the keyserver with the subject
"get EMAIL" (you must replace EMAIL by the emailaddress or a piece of
the user-id).

solong,
Thomas

Footnotes:
[1] http://pgp.rivertown.net/
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As is the rule, right after I asked, a little more digging revealed an
answer for me. I'm now using search.keyserver.net in my .gnupg/options
file and everything is hunky dory.

Thanks for all your help.

Chris Hilts
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