Phil, Thanks for the explanation on what was happening. I thought something was just not right as when I hit search it would come back in less than a second with 0 results. It seemed to me that it didn't actually even search through the database. Anyway now that you say there is not really a server anymore to search it makes sense.
I'm not familiar with the attack on it and by who so will have to google it and see if I can learn more. On 9/18/2020 8:32 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2020-09-18 at 08:06 -0700, Mark wrote: >> I use GPG4Win and I've noticed that "hkp://keys.gnupg.net" is not >> working right. I was not getting any hits back when searching with >> Kleopatra and then I tried to ping that server which returned host not >> found. So I'm also interested if there is a better choice. > keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME for hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net -- which is > now returning zero results. > > The pool of is Very Unhealthy. The entire keyserver > system had Known Issues but worked well enough that the volunteers who > ran it could keep it alive and improving, until it came under sustained > attack from people trying to burn it all down and push people to use > "not OpenPGP" instead (some of the funding for attack tool development > came from an org which is firmly pushing one of the modern alternative > encrypted communications tools). > > There's still some keyservers, but what you see now are the red smoking > embers of what's left after everything else has been burnt down. From a > pool of around 120 servers, almost all routinely working fairly well and > being able to maintain per-continent pool aliases of servers which were > health-checked and removed if not doing well, there's now fewer than 20 > servers left, from very few independent sources, and even those in the > main pool are often not doing well. > > Which is why folks are struggling and trying to find something which > works well enough. There's nothing which fits all needs, but various > solutions for some scenarios. See my first reply in this thread with > suggestions of particular servers. > > -Phil _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users