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- PGP Public Keyservers
- ---------------------
-
- There are PGP public key servers which allow one to exchange public
- keys running through the Internet and UUCP mail systems.
-
- NOTE!
-
- This service is NOT supported in any way whatsoever by the schools or
- organizations on which these servers run. It is here only to help
- transfer keys between PGP users. It does NOT attempt to guarantee
- that a key is a valid key; use the signators on a key for that kind of
- security. This service can be discontinued at any time without prior
- notification.
-
- Each keyserver processes requests in the form of mail messages. The
- commands for the server are entered on the Subject: line.
-
- To: pgp-public-keys@junkbox.cc.iastate.edu
- From: johndoe@some.site.edu
- Subject: help
-
- Sending your key to ONE server is enough. After it processes your
- key, it will forward your add request to other servers automagically.
-
- For example, to add your key to the keyserver, send a message similar
- to the following to any server:
-
- To: pgp-public-keys@junkbox.cc.iastate.edu
- From: johndoe@some.site.edu
- Subject: add
-
- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Version: 2.2
-
- <blah blah blah>
- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
-
- COMPROMISED KEYS: Create a Key Revocation Certificate (read the PGP
- docs on how to do that) and mail your key to the server once again,
- with the ADD command.
-
- Valid commands are:
-
- Command Message body contains
- ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
- ADD Your PGP public key (key to add is body of msg)
- INDEX List all PGP keys the server knows about (-kv)
- VERBOSE INDEX List all PGP keys, verbose format (-kvv)
- GET Get the whole public key ring
- GET userid Get just that one key
- MGET regexp Get all keys which match /regexp/
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Examples for the MGET command:
-
- MGET michael Gets all keys which have "michael" in them
- MGET iastate All keys which contain "iastate"
- MGET F605A5|3A738B Those two keyid's
-
-
- As of 28-Feb-93, these sites are running this system:
-
- Internet sites:
- pgp-public-keys@junkbox.cc.iastate.edu
- Michael Graff
- explorer@iastate.edu
- FTP: tbird.cc.iastate.edu:/usr/explorer/public-keys.pgp
- pgp-public-keys@toxicwaste.mit.edu
- Derek Atkins
- warlord@MIT.EDU
- FTP: toxicwaste.mit.edu:/pub/keys/public-keys.pgp
- pgp-public-keys@phil.utmb.edu
- John Perry
- perry@phil.utmb.edu
- FTP: phil.utmb.edu:/pub/pgp/public-keys.pgp
- pgp-public-keys@demon.co.uk
- Mark Turner
- mark@demon.co.uk
- FTP: ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/pgp/pubring.pgp (Updated daily)
-
- UUCP site:
- pgp-public-keys@jpunix.com
- John Perry
- perry@jpunix.com
-
- Check the Usenet newsgroup alt.security.pgp for updates to this system
- and for new sites.
-
- --Michael <explorer@iastate.edu>
-