On 08/12/2014 11:27 PM, shm...@riseup.net wrote:
i've seen a multitude of ways people input data into this pref

for example, some people put a link to their public key .asc or .txt file

some others put a link to an actual keyserver

from the name of the actual pref, it states a keyserver, so shouldn't
users input a link to their Preferred keyserver and not a link to
download a public key or txt file ?

Please don't use this option, or encourage its use. It leads to the trap described here:

https://dougbarton.us/PGP/stale-keyserver-url.html

which most users (even those few who update their keyrings) cannot figure out how to escape.

There is no good reason to use this option, and the public key servers are vastly preferable in any case.

Doug



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