Shouldn't keyservers store and provide subkeys?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Mar 24 22:20:02 CET 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:04:52 GMT, Adam Funk said:
> 
> > one at home).  Then I tried to update each machine to have the new
> > public subkeys (using pgp.mit.edu):
> 
> That keyserver as well as all other servers running the old HKS
> software are broken.  YOu should move away from that keyserver and use
> an SKS one (e.g. random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de) or at least those at
> subkeys.pgp.net.
> 
> BTW, to avoid answering these questions over and over, should we just
> setup working keyservers under the gnupg.net domain?  It seems the old
> and broken pgp.net servers will never vanish.

I'm all for it.  It would be nice to point people to a keyserver set
that works properly with everything: multiple subkeys, photo IDs, and
MR output.  At the moment, this is just SKS servers.

David



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