WKD for GitHub pages

Ángel angel at pgp.16bits.net
Sun Jan 10 23:18:47 CET 2021


On 2021-01-10 at 18:47 +0100, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Can you tell me/us in laymen terms how this works with gnupg.org?
> 
> openpgpkey.gnupg.org has address 217.69.77.222
> openpgpkey.gnupg.org has IPv6 address 2001:aa8:fff1:100::22
> 
> Regards
> Stefan

Sure. Let's suppose you wanted to fetch Werner's key. You want the key
for wk at gnupg.org Using --with-wkd-hash parameter, we can see that this
would generate nq6t9teux7edsnwdksswydu4o9i5es3f at gnupg.org

Then, the key of Werner lives at
https://openpgpkey.gnupg.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/gnupg.org/hu/nq6t9teux7edsnwdksswydu4o9i5es3f

If openpgpkey.gnupg.org didn't exist, then it would use the direct schema, in which the key would be at
https://gnupg.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/nq6t9teux7edsnwdksswydu4o9i5es3f



Best regards






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