more than one keyserver

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Mon May 8 23:52:16 CEST 2006


On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:08:09PM +0200, Henk M. de Bruijn wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006 12:56:56 -0400GMT (8-5-2006, 18:56 +0200, where I
> live), David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Henk M. de Bruijn wrote:
> 
> >> I have the following lines in my gpg.conf
> >> keyserver hkp://pgp.surfnet.nl
> >> keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
> >> keyserver-options import-clean
> >> auto-key-locate hkp://pgp.surfnet.nl
> >> Is this the correct order/rank?
> 
> > It depends.  What are you trying to do?
> 
> When I receive a signed message from somebody who's key is not on my
> keyring, automaticly fetch that key.

Then you're fine.  The auto-key-locate and import-clean are not needed
for that purpose, but won't hurt you.

David



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