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PGP KEY MANAGEMENT
Managing OpenPGP keys
with PGP is as simple as can
be. After you configure your
client, tasks such as finding and
signing keys should take only seconds.
Adding Keyservers
PGP defaults to using the keyserver provided by the PGP Cor-
poration, which is perfectly adequate if all your correspondents
are also using PGP, but people use a variety of keyservers out
on the public Internet. To that end, PGP allows you to add
keyservers to its search list, so that you can find new keys more
automatically in the future.
NOTE Some keyservers are better than others, so don’t add keyservers willy-
nilly. PGP includes some built-in recommendations ...