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PGP & GPG
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PGP & GPG

by Michael W. Lucas
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
6h 28m
English
No Starch Press
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82 Chapter 5
Keyservers
Keyservers store OpenPGP public keys for general public
access. If you followed the instructions during the OpenPGP
install process, your public key should now be available on the
keyservers subkeys.pgp.net and keyserver.pgp.com, and people
should have no trouble finding it.
subkeys.pgp.net
The keyserver subkeys.pgp.net is an old-style PGP keyserver,
from a time when only the technically elite used PGP (or the
Internet, for that matter). It’s actually several keyservers run by
volunteers from all over the world, and each time you contact
this machine, you’re actually reaching a different server. After
you upload a public key to any of these keyservers, it should be
replicated and available on all of them within hours. ...
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