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Re: ITP: pkspxy (PGP Public Key Server Proxy)



On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:48:24PM +0000, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> Package: pkspxy
> Architecture: any
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Suggests: pkspxyc
> Description: PGP Public Key Server Proxy Daemon
>  This package implements a caching proxy to be used between any
>  program which speaks the HKP protocol for PGP public key exchange,
>  and any HKP-capable key server (this will probably be pks).

Is there any reason for this? HKP really just defines a URI space on
top of HTTP. Why not use existing proxy servers, like Squid? I patched
GnuPG to work with a HTTP proxy, it works very well.

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