[YLUG] GPG & Keyservers

[Stephen Patterson]

To follow on from last night's talk...

GPG public key servers are used so that you can make your public key available
in a central directory so that anyone who needs your public key (to encrypt mail
to you or to verify mail signed by you) can receive it.

Physically, there are many different GPG key servers but they all synchronise
with each other so it shouldn't matter which one you pick.

For instance, I have the following in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-subkeys

so gnupg knows to automatically fetch keys, and where to fetch them from. Some
of the keyservers, such as http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ include a web interface that
you can query.

-- 
Stephen Patterson :: steve at patter.mine.nu :: http://patter.mine.nu/
GPG: E3E8E974 :: Jabber: patter at jabber.earth.li 
"At night, the razor weasels come."
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