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| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 1 | Key servers are repositories of keys in public key systems, they are necessary infrastructure for the widespread and easy use of systems such as [PGP] and [GnuPG]. Normally [KeyServer]s are publically accessible, allowing for querying, retrieval and long-term archiving of public keys. |
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| 4 | !! Keyservers for [OpenPGP] | ||
| 5 | AristotlePagaltzis | 5 | |
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 6 | (OpenPGP is the standard that [GPG] and [PGP] adhere to). |
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| 8 | If you're new to [GPG], and wondering what you're supposed to do with your newly created key, here are some key servers you can upload and receive keys to/from. | ||
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| 10 | Use a command like | ||
| 11 | gpg --keyserver <some.key.server> ... | ||
| 12 | Or even better, add a line to your $HOME/.gnupg/options file like: | ||
| 13 | keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net | ||
| 14 | (In recent versions of [GPG] -- such as 1.2.1 or later -- the options file has been renamed to gpg.conf) | ||
| 1 | StuartYeates | 15 | |
| 16 | There are many lists of publically accessible key servers, but many of the are very out-of-date. At the time of writing http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html was a good, current list. | ||
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| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 18 | |
| 19 | !"main" key server network | ||
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| 9 | JayDaley | 21 | Most OpenPGP keyservers are part of a global network that synchronises slowly. You can see the full synchronisation map here: |
| 22 | * http://www.pramberger.at/peter/services/keyserver/network/ | ||
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| 24 | The only NZ based OpenPGP keyserver is at: | ||
| 25 | * http://pgp.net.nz (info pages) | ||
| 26 | * http://pgp.net.nz:11371 (web interface) | ||
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| 28 | Other servers that synchronise with each other are: | ||
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 29 | * everything at http://www.au.pgp.net/pgpnet/ftp-key.html |
| 6 | StuartYeates | 30 | * http://wwwkeys.pgp.net (this uses round-robin [DNS]) |
| 31 | * http://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net (a subset of the above) | ||
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 32 | * the.earth.li (aka wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net) |
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| 6 | StuartYeates | 34 | * http://www.pgpkeys.net (I think this is part of the above network...?) |
| 3 | PeterPramb | 35 | |
| 7 | MattBrown | 36 | * Currently random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de seems to be the best address to use. This is a set of SKS (RFC:2440, RFC:2440bis and http://www.nongnu.org/sks/) compatible keyservers advertised using [RoundRobinDNS]. They are well synchronised and support advanced features such as photo uids. |
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 37 | |
| 38 | !"Other" key servers | ||
| 39 | These servers (apparently?) don't synchronise with the above. | ||
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| 41 | * www.mandrakesecure.net | ||
| 8 | AlastairPorter | 42 | * keyserver.net |
| 5 | AristotlePagaltzis | 43 | |
| 44 | ---- | ||
| 45 | Part of CategoryCryptography |
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