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Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!



* On 2019 07 Jul 14:43 -0500, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Yes. It is not used very much yet but some organizations like debian.org
> and kernel.org have it.

I'm learning.  Slowly.

> SKS keyserver software does not have maintainers and currently it seems
> that not much development will happen on the server software. So there's
> no point in saying "SKS should do something". It won't. Unless someone
> starts writing code again. Until then only clients such as GnuPG can be
> updated to handle today's challenges like key signature flooding.
> 
> Some have said that SKS keyservers are dying. They don't vanish
> immediately but it's good idea to look and develop alternatives like WKD
> or different keyserver implementations like Hagrid in
> <https://keys.openpgp.org>.

I am now reading
	
	https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

and am gaining understanding of why SKS is probably not salvageable. 

I have just uploaded my signing certificate to https://keys.openpgp.org
and right now am waiting to receive an authentication email from the
site.  It may be an experiment more than anything, but I thought I'd try
it.

- Nate

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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."

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