gpg experts?

[R P Herrold]

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 at 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