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wk at gnupg

May 29, 2012, 10:26 AM

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[FYI] keys.gnupg.net (was: changing the default for --keyid-format)

Hi,

I can't remember whether I announced it, but since some weeks

keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME to pool.sks-keyservers.net

and

http-keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME to ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net

The reason for this change is that it is useless to spend a lot of work
in maintaining such a second pool. The folks behing sks-keyservers.net
to a very well job. keys.gnupg.org is mentioned in the installed sample
config file and thus likely used by many new users. Now it works again.


Shalom-Salam,

Werner

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n3npq at me

May 29, 2012, 10:59 AM

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Re: [Sks-devel] [FYI] keys.gnupg.net (was: changing the default for --keyid-format) [In reply to]

On May 29, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Werner Koch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't remember whether I announced it, but since some weeks
>
> keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME to pool.sks-keyservers.net
>
> and
>
> http-keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME to ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net
>
> The reason for this change is that it is useless to spend a lot of work
> in maintaining such a second pool. The folks behing sks-keyservers.net
> to a very well job. keys.gnupg.org is mentioned in the installed sample
> config file and thus likely used by many new users. Now it works again.
>

FWIW, the reasoning is/was similar in RPM choosing the sks-keyservers pool
as a default key server configuration:
%_hkp_keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
%_hkp_keyserver_query %{_hkp_keyserver}/pks/lookup?op=get&search=
There's no need to reinvent a better infrastructure.

So I'll chime in and piggy-back a +1 to Kristian Fiskerstrand here: Nice job!

(aside)
The previous default of "keys.rpm5.org" might yet have to be resurrected
if it is not possible to also use SKS key servers as a notary registrar for
automatically generated key pairs generated by every invocation of
rpmbuild -ba foo.spec
The number of invocations of rpmbuild daily is likely larger than all other
pubkey uploads to SKS key servers combined.

Which makes me a bit more sensitive to issues of bloat! with CA57AD7C robo-signatures
in SKS key servers than most.

73 de Jeff

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