[Fedora-infrastructure-list] GPG key server

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Tue Aug 29 00:00:58 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:10:40AM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>        I am a new member. While registering my gpg key to pgp.mit.edu, it
>    would not accept my key!! The problem turns out that it doesn't understand
>    GPG keys with a photo-ID. After some googling, it turns out:
>    1- pgp.mit.edu doesnot accept some key formats
>    2- pgp.mit.edu mangles other keys
>    3- hkp://subkeys.pgp.net is a much better alternative, as it load balances
>    over many physical servers
>    4- hkp://subkeys.pgp.net is the chosen default server now in GnuPG
>    configuration.
> 
>    I am suggesting recommending that server on the web pages
>    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/NewAccount
>    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys

+1.  The OLS keysignings recommended subkeys.pgp.net as well.  They
should all sync to each other eventually.

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