SKS servers with e-mail

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:26:12AM +0600, Ivan Boldyrev wrote:
> On 8663 day of my life Bjoern Buerger wrote:
> > Am So, 22 Feb 2004 schrieb Ivan Boldyrev:
> >
> >> I can request keys with pgp-public-keys AT keys.pgp.net.  But the
> >> keys.pgp.net is buggy.  Is there any SKS server that can send keys
> >> with e-mail?
> >
> > No, the current version of sks only implements HKP for users, 
> > the sks gossip protocol and passive mailsync for servers. 
> >
> > Key retrieval via mail is on the wishlist.
> 
> Two another questions then.
> 
> 1.  Is there server with e-mail retrieval which understand subkeys?
>     keys.pgp.net doesn't.

I think Jason's server does.  It doesn't understand photo IDs though.
pgp-public-keys at keyserver.kjs.com.

> 2.  It's relatively easy to create mail robot that fetches keys from
>     sks sever, isn't it?

Sure, just do a HTTP GET and mail the results back.

http://sks.dnsalias.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x99242560

Just replace the 0x99242560 with the keyid you want.

David