"No-Keyserver" (and other) flags on keys

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Monday 28 June 2010 at 7:12:02 PM, in
<mid:1613819.20100628191202 at my_localhost>, I wrote:



> On Monday 28 June 2010 at 4:41:16 PM, in
> <mid:3B0F685A-8D39-4B8C-AC4E-D4E81CA4E9E1 at jabberwocky.com>,
> David Shaw wrote:

>>   auto-key-locate  hkp://pgp.mit.edu
>> hkp://subkeys.pgp.net  hkp://some.other.server.etc
>> ldap://even.a.ldap.server.works

>> List as many as you like, they'll be tried in order.

> Is this different to auto-key-retrieve?

OK, I got it. Auto-key-retrieve controls fetching keys from a
keyserver to verify a signature, and auto-key-locate controls fetching
keys from a server to encrypt to an email address that doesn't match
any keys on your keyring.

Is there a reason you can only automatically query one keyserver for a
key to verify a signature, but multiple keyservers for a key to
encrypt to an email address?


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