WaPo also does have SecureDrop, but I'm not sure how often that gets used either.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:34 PM Jay Sulzberger via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2022, Andrew Gallagher <andr...@andrewg.com> wrote: > > > > >> On 7 Aug 2022, at 17:28, Jay Sulzberger via Gnupg-users > >> <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: > >> > >> Andrew, do the sks keyservers work today? > >> > >> I was able to find the key by going to > >> > >> https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ > >> > >> and putting > >> > >> EC6C2905F0F93C0373946CA10642427A5FF780BE > >> > >> into the search box. > > > > Do you mean SKS the software (i.e. github.com/sks-keyserver) or SKS > > the protocol/network? The answer in both cases is “yes”, but for > > different values of “yes”. 🤓 > > In the past two days, I have come to understand how little I know > about the design, the practical use, and the statistics of usage, of > gnupg. I think that learning some more is worth the effort. > > > > > What doesn’t work any more is the sks-keyservers.net pool, which had > > become a nightmare to manage. This has been taken by many to mean > > that the SKS network itself is down, but this is absolutely not the > > case. > > Ah. > > > > > sks-keyserver still works, but is IMO not suitable for use in > > production unless you are an expert willing to roll your own load > > balancing pool and recompile the code to update blacklists (there > > are still a few such brave souls left). This may change in the > > future — the software is maintained but hasn’t had a significant > > feature bump in some time. > > Ah, oi. > > > > > The SKS network also still works, and depending on your choice of > > metric is probably more stable today than it has ever been. The > > reasons are twofold: many operators have migrated from sks-keyserver > > to hockeypuck, and most of the rest have shut down. This means that > > although there are fewer keyservers now than five years ago, the > > ones that do exist (including keyserver.ubuntu.com) are generally > > much more reliable. > > Ah, OK. > > > > > Information about the SKS network can be found at https://spider.pgpkeys.eu > > > > A > > Andrew, thank you much for this useful short introduction to these > obscure things! > > oo--JS. > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
