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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date">10th September
2014</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk with the
26 <a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group
</a> about
27 <a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20140909-sks-keyservers/">the
28 OpenPGP keyserver pool sks-keyservers.net
</a>, and was very happy to
29 learn that there is a large set of publicly available key servers to
30 use when looking for peoples public key. So far I have used
31 subkeys.pgp.net, and some times wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net when the former
32 were misbehaving, but those days are ended. The servers I have used
33 up until yesterday have been slow and some times unavailable. I hope
34 those problems are gone now.
</p>
36 <p>Behind the round robin DNS entry of the
37 <a href=
"https://sks-keyservers.net/">sks-keyservers.net
</a> service
38 there is a pool of more than
100 keyservers which are checked every
39 day to ensure they are well connected and up to date. It must be
40 better than what I have used so far. :)
</p>
42 <p>Yesterdays speaker told me that the service is the default
43 keyserver provided by the default configuration in GnuPG, but this do
44 not seem to be used in Debian. Perhaps it should?
</p>
46 <p>Anyway, I've updated my ~/.gnupg/options file to now include this
50 keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net
51 </pre></blockquote></p>
53 <p>With GnuPG version
2 one can also locate the keyserver using SRV
54 entries in DNS. Just for fun, I did just that at work, so now every
55 user of GnuPG at the University of Oslo should find a OpenGPG
56 keyserver automatically should their need it:
</p>
59 % host -t srv _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no
60 _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no has SRV record
0 100 11371 pool.sks-keyservers.net.
62 </pre></blockquote></p>
65 <a href=
"http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp/">the
66 HKP lookup protocol
</a> supported finding signature paths, I would be
67 very happy. It can look up a given key or search for a user ID, but I
68 normally do not want that, but to find a trust path from my key to
69 another key. Given a user ID or key ID, I would like to find (and
70 download) the keys representing a signature path from my key to the
71 key in question, to be able to get a trust path between the two keys.
72 This is as far as I can tell not possible today. Perhaps something
73 for a future version of the protocol?
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