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Alan K. Martinez wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to the group.
>
> I was curious why when I read messages posted in the group through my
> Outlook 2003, using PGP 9.5, I see "* PGP Signed by an unknown key", but
> when I check my PGP settings I have set to Automatically lookup keys on
> keyservers when verifying signatures and I have it set to save keys to my
> keyring.
>
> The only keyserver I have is keyserver.pgp.com.
>
> Is it because the messages have keys not stored on this server? What other
>; servers could I add to my keyserver list?
pgp.mit.edu works fine for older keys. It runs the PGP Key Server (pks). PKS
does not handle V4 key features well. Notable examples of mangled features
are multiple subkeys, a revoked subkey (tag 0x28), duplicate keyids, direct
key signatures (tag 0x1F), revocation signatures on userids (tag 0x30), or
photo IDs. There is also no development or maintenance being done on the pks
platform. One exception to the pks servers is keyserver.kjsl.com, which has
been patched to not mangle keys; however, it drops photo IDs.
The one PKS server at kjsl.com, the LDAP keyservers (only one is still on
the 'net and it's unsynchronized, ldap://keyserver-legacy.pgp.com), and all of
the SKS servers handle v4 keys correctly.
The current platform of choice is known as the Synchronizing Key Server
(SKS). It is written to fully comply with OpenPGP specifications. It also
synchronizes key information between all of its peers very rapidly.
subkeys.pgp.net is a round-robin DNS lookup of four servers. Three SKS
servers and the server at keyserver.kjsl.com.
The address some of my correspondents and myself and refer to most users is
random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de. It's a round-robin alias that is
updated daily with the operational servers in SKS' universe.
For my own use, I use minsky.surfnet.nl. It's easy for me to remember (Yaron
Minsky wrote SKS and its Gossip protocol.) It's also short to type.
The following servers should find the vast majority of keys that have been uploaded:
random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
subkeys.pgp.net
pgp.mit.edu
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"what's the key to success?" / "two words: good decisions."
"what's the key to good decisions?" / "one word: experience."
"how do i get experience?" / "two words: bad decisions."
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