On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jon M. Hanson wrote:
> The problem with the key servers is that there are a lot of them and
> they don't share keys between each other. Does the group here have a key
> server that they are all using?
ehhh? the majors clearly DO cross synchronize; I do not know
of a person who would trust anything else -- note the last
four lines of the following extract:
--------from:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN464
One or more keys may be sent to a keyserver using the
command-line option --send-keys. The option takes one or more
key specifiers and sends the specified keys to the key server.
The key server to which to send the keys is specified with the
command-line option --keyserver. Similarly, the option
--recv-keys is used to retrieve keys from a keyserver, but the
option --recv-keys requires a key ID be used to specify the
key. In the following example Alice updates her public key
with new signatures from the keyserver certserver.pgp.com and
then sends her copy of Blake's public key to the same
keyserver to contribute any new signatures she may have added.
alice% gpg --keyserver certserver.pgp.com --recv-key 0xBB7576AC
gpg: requesting key BB7576AC from certserver.pgp.com ...
gpg: key BB7576AC: 1 new signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: new signatures: 1
alice% gpg --keyserver certserver.pgp.com --send-key
blake@cyb.org
gpg: success sending to 'certserver.pgp.com' (status=200)
There are several popular keyservers in use around the world.
The major keyservers synchronize themselves, so it is fine to
pick a keyserver close to you on the Internet and then use it
regularly for sending and receiving keys.
-- Russ Herrold
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