On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:25, mjr@phonecoop.coop said:
Keyservers are horribly broken. subkeys.pgp.mit.edu (or something
No there are not. It is just that too many folks still stick to pgp.mit.edu instead of using a modern keyserver based on SKS or onak.
subkeys.pgp.net lists all non-broken keyservers but has the disadvantage of not knowing which keyserver is actually used. GPA features this list of working keyservers:
hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
You will always get an SKS server. Good choice.
hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de hkp://pks.gpg.cz hkp://pgp.cns.ualberta.ca hkp://minsky.surfnet.nl
All SKS; I use the surfnet one.
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com hkp://keyserver.pramberger.at http://gpg-keyserver.de http://keyserver.pramberger.at
hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
Easiest URL to remember.
ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
Do not use this one as it does not syncronize with other servers and sends annoying HTML formatted challenges.
hkp://demokeys.gnupg.org
Onak server which does not sync with other servers and is to be used only for test keys. If you want to demonstrate how a keyserver works, just create a key, upload it and get it back from that server. There a quite some keys on it for real testing but there is no backup and the keys may be removed at any time.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner