PGP keys

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Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Derek Neighbors wrote:
>
>>http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html#ss1.1
>
>
> The instructions above, don't go into much detail about public key servers.
> That's OK because I can read up on it in many other places.
>
> My question is: Which public server to use? Is there a preferred or "most
> used" one?
>
I usually pull keys from wwwkeys.pgp.net first.

Attached is a small script. Depending on how you call it, it will send or
fetch keys from a bunch of servers all in one shot.

--
KevinO

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
-- Lily Tomlin

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#!/bin/sh

# This script either sends or receives public keys to (or from) all the
# OpenPGP keyservers. Name it either 'recv-keys' or 'send-keys' and use a
# hard link to the other name.

# Call it thusly: 'recv-keys <key id> [<key id> ...]

prog=`basename $0` >& /dev/null
echo $prog

# Thanks to <http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html> for some of the hosts.
for ip in `( for server in \
               wwwkeys.pgp.net \
           wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net \
               wwwkeys.dk.pgp.net \
           wwwkeys.es.pgp.net \
               wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net \
               wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net \
           wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net \
               wwwkeys.us.pgp.net \
               certserver.pgp.com \
           pgp5.ai.mit.edu \
           pgp.cc.gatech.edu \
           pgp.es.net \
           pgp.rediris.es \
           pgp.nic.ad.jp \
           pgp.uk.demon.net \
           keyserver.linux.it \
           fredholm.upb.de \
           ds.carnet.hr \
           belgium.keyserver.net \
           keyserver.topnet.de \
           ashton.weg.net \
           pgp.loxinfo.co.th \
           keyserver.kjsl.com \
           ; \
             do
#              host $server | grep "    A    " | cut -d ' ' -f 3
               host $server | cut -d ' ' -f 4
               echo $server
             done
           ) |
           sort -u`; do
  echo " "
  echo ------------------ $ip ------------------
  echo " "
  gpg --keyserver $ip --$prog $*
done

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