Hi Alexander!
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Alexander Pennace wrote:
> > Package: pkspxy
> > 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?
You cannot compare pkspxy with squid because it supports an
"offline-mode" like wwwoffle, where it accepts requests and postpones
them until it is switched to the "online-mode".
In contrast to a normal web proxy pkspxy supports caching and
if-modified-since as well as trying many different proxy servers until
a key is found.
> I patched GnuPG to work with a HTTP proxy, it works very well.
pkspxyc is primarily intend to work with Mutt, so you don't need to
patch your client for this. But why don't you simply take pkspxy as
another alternative. If you personally don't need this package, it's
no problem...
Ciao
Roland
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