comment, propagation, and key servers

[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder]

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On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:29, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:

> knew my public key.  The key server I used was www.keyserver.net.  Today,=
 I=20
> uploaded (I think) to 5 other key servers to hopefully make my public key=
=20

This is the basic fault you're making. keyserver.net has several
difficulties:
 - they don't (or do not often?) synchronize with the rest of the world
 - I have frequently had troubles accessing them - apparently, only 1
server is working.
 - their server software is commercial (ok, this one does not matter for
normal use).

I'd recommend everybody to use the wwwkeys.pgp.net group of servers
(using wwwkeys.pgp.net gives a random server, you can use a specific
server if you want, it should not be necessary normally).

Hmmm, comment header - from the manpage:
       --comment string
                 Use  string  as comment string in clear text signatures.  =
The
                 default is not do write a comment string.

To write any option into gpg.conf, just leave the '--' off:
comment: use the keyserver blah blah

(good idea, btw)

cheers
-- vbi

--=20
pub  1024D/92082481 2002-02-22 Adrian von Bidder=20
     Key fingerprint =3D EFE3 96F4 18F5 8D65 8494  28FC 1438 5168 9208 2481

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