On 2020-09-17 at 22:57 +0200, Martin wrote: > Which keyserver do you recommend these days?
For what purpose? For receiving updates to previously known keys, of people who care enough about their keys to distribute their keys across multiple keyservers instead of just going "I pushed it to the keyservers, that's it, I don't care", hkps://keys.openpgp.org is probably the most reasonable choice. There's no choice for general purpose, and "running a keysigning party" or "finding someone's key from their fingerprint" which works well today. If publishing keys, I do recommend setting up WKD for your domain, which helps a little. And heck, I run a finger daemon written in Go for a true blast from the past. :) <hkp://the.earth.li> is in the UK, run from the same University bunch of folks as gave us PuTTY and has been around receiving keys from the SKS keyservers via email for ages, so tends to be "fairly well populated", so is where I try next after openpgp.org. After that I hit old SKS keyservers which usually seem to work, whether or not these entries are in the pools and _current_, since they'll at least get me some of a key; the pool hostnames haven't been worth trying the last several times I checked, too many bad servers. hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com hkps://zimmermann.mayfirst.org hkp://keys2.kfwebs.net hkps://pgp.mit.edu The kfwebs and pgp.mit.edu servers appear to not be working right now, which leaves us with Ubuntu's and Dan Gillmor's (DKG's) mayfirst.org server. You can still look over https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ to see if there are any working there, if the pool hostnames are broken for you at the time you check. The status list for the servers not in the pools will show you how far "behind" they are. -Phil _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
