
172 Appendix A
Distributing to Keyservers
Send your public key to a keyserver with the --keyserver-send
option, and use the --keyserver option to choose the keyserver:
# pgp --keyserver-send UID --keyserver protocol://keyserver
The UID is either the whole UID of the key we want
to publicize or a large enough piece of it so that PGP can
identify it.
The keyserver must include the protocol used to access
the keyserver and the keyserver’s name. Common protocols
include LDAP (used by PGP Corporation’s keyserver) and
HTTP (used by keyservers such as subkeys.pgp.net). Include
the protocol before the machine name, much like a URL. For
example, to send ...