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Re: GPG key not found



on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:26:09PM -0800, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:01:52PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I've uploaded my GPG public key to www.keyserver.net some days ago. The
> > key ID is 07182FBC, but you can only get the key as 0x07182FBC, or
> > andre.berger@topmail.de. What's wrong? How do I keep people from
> > besieging me to upload a key to a key server that has already been
> > uplaoded? 
> 
> keyserver.net uses a fairly new proprietary keyserver, and it very
> much appears to not like GnuPG keys.  my GPG key is on most keyservers
> (the ones using the tried and true free pks) but i think it still does
> not appear on keyserver.net (i haven't checked in a few monthes, i had
> tried to upload it and it ignored it, so i waited for syncronisation
> to occur and it never did).
> 
> my suggestion is use a different keyserver.  pgp.ai.mit.edu was my
> favorite as it was quite reliable and did not use any of these
> proprietary keyservers.  but its been down for days.  

I'm also having problems with the "round-robin" keyserver (I think),
wwwkeys.pgp.net.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't (about one in
three or four attempts fails), and responses are dog slow.

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