John Clizbe wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: >> I'd recommend hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de > > I wouldn't, and it has nothing to do with the server choice.
Well, I would not be so harsh. I guess there are pretty well connected servers (concerning bandwidth and reliability of network lines) and not so good connected or equipped (concerning reliable hardware) ones. Additionally good connectivity always depends on where YOU actually are (so have all lines from the server to your client wide bandwidth? No bottle- neck in between?). And it might even be that a server that is reachable from random.sks.keyserver.de is not reachable from my local client. > Remember, we're discussing automatic key retrieval specified in gpg.conf. One > doesn't have a forty server drop-down list to cycle through, so it needs to > be a > best guess. If you ask me cycling AUTOMATICALLY through a local list of servers could even be a better thing than random.sks.keyserver.de, because it let's room for users choices. So maybe random.sks.keyserver.de is a reasonable default, but may not always be the best solution. In a list that is stepped through locally I could decide to enter serverX.wherever.com as first, serverY.somewhereelse.org as second and random.sks.keyserver.de as third choice. > random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de provides the best > solution of the perennial "which server should I > use" question. So as always: Having or proposing just a single solution is not a good thing. Have lots of solutions and let people choose what to use seems better (and having a good default for those who are not experienced enough to choose or who don't care). So the solution "random.sks.keyserver.de" might be a good default, but who am I to judge what is the BEST solution? Cheers, Olaf -- Dipl.Inform. Olaf Gellert INTRUSION-LAB.NET Senior Researcher, www.intrusion-lab.net PKI - and IDS - Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
