Question about fingerprints and keys uploaded to keyservers

Neil Williams linux at codehelp.co.uk
Sun Feb 22 19:16:51 CET 2004


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On Sunday 22 February 2004 6:56 pm, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:27:51PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > Frankly, I don't know how new users of OpenPGP discover keyserver.net
> > in the first place.
>
> > Google?
>
> It is the second hit for http://www.google.com/search?q=keyserver+pgp
> (after the MIT keyserver). It's the first for
> http://www.google.com/search?q=keyserver+openpgp.

It's also quite an intuitive domain name - keyserver.com
(an alias for keyserver.net). So stick keyserver in the address bar of IE and 
keyserver.net appears.

If the browser doesn't add the .com, keyserver.org is for distributed 
computing DNS keyservers (not sure why they call them keyservers though), 
keyserver.net is the next in line in most people's 'blind' domain searching.

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Neil Williams
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