[email protected] dijo [Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 02:57:02AM +0000]:
Do these other keyring servers leave the key intact? I stopped using the key servers for my small personal projects and just have my public key posted on my personal website because one of them ( keys.openpgp.org I think ) lists my public key, but it seems to have stripped all the identifying information from it so it can't be searched for by email address and even if you download the copy they have apps like Kleopatra fail to import it, and when comparing it to my copy of the public key I manually exported the contents are MUCH shorter on their copy.
keys.openpgp.org is a very opinionated keyserver run by the Sequoia project (with their "Hagrid" keyserver software). Its operational logic is differente from most keyservers as they are a _validating_ keyserver, so they will "comb through" your key, and only accept the bits from it they deem as adequate. Particularly, if you haven't verified you control the mail addresses for your subkeys, they won't have anything but a record that it exists (and thus, any subkeys without an email-bearing UID won't be useful). Of course, https://keys.openpgp.org/about/ has better, more authorized information on their operation 🙂
