Public keys stored on different server

Alex alex at blueselene.com
Wed Feb 1 13:01:21 CET 2023


On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:32:41 +0100
Martin <martin at postzone.org> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Perhaps my question is strange an silly ;-)
> 
> More and more I see messages which are signed - but the author didn't
> store his public key on a keyserver (eg. hkps://keys.openpgp.org) -
> sometimes a footnote in the massages gives a link where the key could
> be downloaded. Sometimes this link has a bad or strange https 
> certificate...
> 
> What are the reasons for such a procedure and what is the advantage?
> 

That sometimes happen to me, my key is available at my domain but
sometimes codeberg pages freaks out a bit, fails to recognize my custom
domain and serves the *.codeberg.pages certificate, sorry about that, in
case you're talking about my key it is also at the Ubuntu keyserver:
keyserver.ubuntu.com (I used to have that on my sig).

There's not much you can do in those situations. There's not
really much in the way of an advantage compared to downloading from a
keyserver when searching by the key ID.

-- 
Current PGP KeyID: 11ADE4393600C1BDFFCBC0A598DE15942B08CA00

https://blueselene.com/pgp-archive/11ADE4393600C1BDFFCBC0A598DE15942B08CA00/key.pub

For up-to-date information on my crypto keys see
https://blueselene.com/crypto.html
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