SKS is a OpenPGP keyserver whose goal is to provide easy to deploy, decentralized, and highly reliable synchronization. That means that a key submitted to one SKS server will quickly be distributed to all key servers, and even wildly out-of-date servers, or servers that experience spotty connectivity, can fully synchronize with rest of the system.
-You can find out more about SKS, along with links to graphs of the network status here.
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- Extract a key-You can extract a key by typing in some words that appear in the userid - of the key you're looking for, or by typing in the keyid in hex format ("0x...") -- -- |
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- Submit a key- You can submit a key by simply pasting in the ASCII-armored version - of your key and clicking on submit. - - |
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- - Access -- To use this server directly via HKP add this to your .PGP keyserver list:- - x-hkp://zimmermann.mayfirst.org -http://zimmermann.mayfirst.org:11371- - You can also select a random server by adding this to your keyserver list: - - x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net -http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371- - |
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