update between pgp.mit.edu and keyserver.net

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Jan 30 19:01:19 CET 2004


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:49:52AM +0100, lukas wrote:

> [answer from pgp.mit.edu]
> > The last time I tried, which was admitedly a while ago, I was unable
> > to get in touch with anyone associated with keyserver.net in order to
> > set up a link between the two keyservers.  If anyone at keyserver.net
> > is reading this and can direct me to the right person, please let me
> > know.
> 
> So IMHO it might be better, not to use keyserver.net at the moment,
> because it seems that they do no updates with other keyservers.

There are other reasons not to use keyserver.net.  It doesn't work
properly for many key types, and has a bug that prevents it from
working reliably for any key on Linux.  Just don't bother.

David



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