Re: gpg-key probs (Was: Re: Tag or delete...)

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what Martin Karlsson said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:32PM +0100:
  
 And I get the same as David. I use 'keyserver pgp.mit.edu'.
 But you should only have to upload to _one_ keyserver, right?

There's more than one keyserver network.

However, it's easier to ask somebody what server they use, and then
figure out what network it's on, than to ask them what network it's on.

They can get the answer to the one question from their options file; the
other requires clue.  Not saying anyone involved in this discussion
doesn't have clue, just saying the general case.




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Re: gpg-key probs (Was: Re: Tag or delete...)

2002-03-28 Thread David T-G

Shawn, et al --

...and then Shawn McMahon said...
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% begin  quoting what Martin Karlsson said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:32PM +0100:
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%  And I get the same as David. I use 'keyserver pgp.mit.edu'.
%  But you should only have to upload to _one_ keyserver, right?
% 
% There's more than one keyserver network.

So it seems.

Are there just one or two, or are there a bunch, or does anyone really
know?  Do the servers in a given network synchronize with each other, or
do even they have problems?

I have this huge list of keyservers in my options file and it would be
nice to *know* that I could prune it down to one per network and go from
there, assuming I know which machines are in which networks.  Since gpg
doesn't offer any simple way to rotate or fall through key servers, the
list I have is hardly helpful, either.


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Re: gpg-key probs (Was: Re: Tag or delete...)

2002-03-28 Thread Shawn McMahon

begin  quoting what David T-G said on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:14:23PM -0500:
 
 Are there just one or two, or are there a bunch, or does anyone really
 know?  Do the servers in a given network synchronize with each other, or
 do even they have problems?

I think there are a few, and some of them synchronize with others.

Beyond that, I dunno.

Generally they're clustered around a given piece of keyserver software,
so you can probably track them somewhat that way.




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