[29486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public key service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 26 16:42:19 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:39:49 -0700
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>> pgp public key service is becoming critical infrastructure. unfortunately,
>> i have been unable to get useful key lookup for a long time. i have been
>> trying
>> <http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/>
>> at jeff schiller's recommendation, and
>> <http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html>
>> which used to work once upon a time. neither work for me.
> EXMH 2.1.2 and later shipped with http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup as
> the URL to check by default. I would have put www.pgp.net as the server,
> but of the 5 servers I checked, 2 were net-unreachable and one tossed a
> 404.
so, thanks to many nanogians, i now have a selection of servers, multi-
addressed servers, an ldap server, ... i can try when i need this service.
needless to say, i am not impressed. while i guess i can limp along like
this, it does not feel like what i would call a production quality service.
but thanks to all for the clues.
randy
