preferred keyserver settings

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:08:37AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Ok, this is a little bit off topic...
> 
> The RFC says the following about the preferred keyserver:
> 
> 5.2.3.18. Preferred key server
> (String)
> This is a URI of a key server that the key holder prefers be used
> for updates. Note that keys with multiple User IDs can have a
> preferred key server for each User ID. Note also that since this is
> a URI, the key server can actually be a copy of the key retrieved by
> ftp, http, finger, etc.
> 
> 
> What does this "the key server can actually be a copy of the key 
> retrieved by" mean?
> Does it mean that I is totally conformant to specify an URI like: 
> "http://foo.bar/myPersonalKey.asc" (note that I'm aware that there is no 
> bar TLD ;-) )?
> This URI would simply hold a copy of the key (and probably all its 
> signatures (including revokation certs and so on)) that could be 
> retrieved via http.
> 
> Would this be conformant with the standard?

Yes.

> Would it work with gpg? ;)

Yes.  Current versions of GPG allow http and finger URLs.  The
upcoming version adds support for everything that cURL supports
(https, ftp, ftps, etc).

David