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 That means that a key submitted to one SKS server will quickly be distributed to all key servers, and even wildly out-of-date servers, or servers that experience spotty connectivity, can fully synchronize with rest of the system.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.
Extract a keyYou 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 keyYou can submit a key by simply pasting in the ASCII-armored version of your key and clicking on submit. |
AccessTo use this server directly via HKP add this to your .PGP keyserver list:x-hkp://zimmermann.mayfirst.org http://zimmermann.mayfirst.org:11371You 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 |