a question about keyservers

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:36, Andrew Gallagher said:

> updates for anyone's key, and many keyservers (such as
> keys.openpgp.org) have strict antispam protections.

And because of this they are SPo*s and contradict the decentralized (aka
fediversed) nature of PGP.  The best anti-spam and avoind of wrong usage
method would be to disallow any search by user-id and only allow
retrieval by fingerprint - maybe even just for revocation.  Key
distribution can be done peer to peer with a simple signed mail.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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