PGP & GPG

PGP Key Management 93

keys distributed by the PGP Global Directory have been signed

by this key, providing a certain level of validation; the PGP

software trusts those keys. However, average public keyservers

perform no validation upon submitted keys, so those keys are

not inherently trustworthy. (You can choose to find individual

keys trustworthy, but their presence on a keyserver does not

imply this.)

Although many people have uploaded their keys to the

PGP Global Directory, you won’t necessarily find every one

of your correspondents there. If you find that you frequently

receive messages signed or encrypted by people who do not

use the PGP Global Directory, adding additional keyservers to

your search will make finding public keys simpler.

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