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The hkp stands for Horowitz Keyserver Protocol, which is used
to exchange keys over a network. Many OpenPGP clients use
HKP, but you don’t need to know anything about its internals.
HKP runs over TCP port 11371, so if you’re behind a firewall
and cannot access that port, you’ll have difficulty communicat-
ing with the keyserver.
List the hostname of the keyserver after the hkp://, much
like the URL for a website.
After you have added this entry into gpg.conf, GPG will
assume that this is your keyserver. You can override this choice
at any time with the command-line option:
--keyserver
NOTE From here on, the examples assume that you ...