Recommended keyserver

Neil Williams linux at codehelp.co.uk
Thu Oct 13 19:37:15 CEST 2005


On Thursday 13 October 2005 4:30 pm, Lares Moreau wrote:
> Is there a recommended(read Endorsed) Keyserver?
> I'm looking at the documentation we have here at gentoo.org and it
> recommends pgp.mit.edu. It has been suggested that this server is old
> and broken.  Is this the case?

Yes, it does not cope well with photo UID's, subkeys that have an expiry date 
changed and other features.

pgp.mit.edu isn't as broken as some others, but it's not as good as the best.

> Please advise.

Use subkeys.pgp.net

It's a DNS round-robin of 3 servers that support the widest range of gnupg 
keys and features.

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